Renita Surles is due in court for a plea hearing today after being charged Friday with charges of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, hit-and-run and other charges.
The charges against Surles come after 41-year-old Rodas Lopez was killed a little more than a week ago after he ran out of gas on Highway 101 in Marin County and was hit by a minivan.
About three hours after the crash, the 38-year-old Surles was stopped on suspicion of drunken driving in Pleasant Hill, where authorities say she registered a blood-alcohol level of .19 percent.
California Highway Patrol investigators later recovered a bumper from the minivan at the scene and traced it back to Surles.
