David John Homer, 37, of 305 Orangeville Road in West Salem Township was sentenced Thursday by Mercer County Common Pleas President Judge Francis J. Fornelli on charges of homicide by vehicle, aggravated assault by drunken driving, drunken driving, driving without a license and driving an unregistered vehicle.

He faces between 4 years, 3 months and 9 years behind bars.

Homer was drunk and speeding when he lost control of his car on a right-hand curve on Gibson Road at 9:43 p.m. Aug. 20 and it smashed into the front end of an oncoming car, state police said. Deborah Wolf, a Jefferson, Ohio, woman who was a passenger in the other car, died after the crash.

Homer, his passenger and the other driver were admitted to UPMC Horizon, Greenville, for injuries suffered in the crash. All four had been wearing seatbelts, police said.