A nightmare that began for a Transfer woman on June 15, 2002, doesn't seem to end.

The Cabot, Pa., woman who admitted she was responsible for the death of Rosellen Moller's son Wednesday asked a Butler County judge to reduce the amount of money she was ordered to pay into a Victims' Compensation Fund.

"It is an insult to their lives," Mrs. Moller said of her son, Glenn Clark, and his wife and now 2-year-old son.

Clark, 38, was killed instantly when Jennifer Langston drove her pickup across the center line into his. The crash put his wife Annette, 34, into an unresponsive coma; she was about 2 months pregnant at the time. Their son, Michael, was delivered via Caesarian section in November 2002 and is being reared by Annette Clark's sister and brother-in-law.

Ms. Langston, who was 27 at the time of the accident, pleaded guilty in September to homicide by motor vehicle, reckless endangerment, reckless driving and driving at unsafe speed.

State police had said she was driving drunk and talking on a cellular telephone while driving.

However, an initial charge of homicide while driving under the influence was reduced when it became apparent that Ms. Langston's blood alcohol test result of 0.11 would likely be thrown out of court because the sample was taken almost two hours after the crash. At the time, a driver with a blood alcohol level of 0.10 was considered legally drunk in Pennsylvania; that limit has since been lowered to 0.08.

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