Obdulia Sanchez (born April 5, 1999) is a resident of Stockton, California. ^{[1] [3] [6] [15]} She received international media attention after a video of her involved in a fatal car accident while live streaming on Instagram Live went viral in July 2017. ^{[2] [3] [23] [12]} She saw media attention when she crashed her car yet again in 2019.^[34]

She is the older sister of Jacqueline Sanchez Estrada. ^{[1] [6] [3]}

On July 21, 2017, Obdulia was arrested after she live streamed a car crash on Instagram Live that killed her sister, Jacqueline Sanchez Estrada, and seriously injured Manuela Seja. ^{[2] [3] [1] [15]}

Jacqueline Sanchez and Manuel were two passengers in the 2003 Buick that Obdulia was driving westbound down Henry Miller Road around 6:40 p.m. ^{[2] [3] [1] [15]}

Obdulia overcorrected the Buick when it traveled off the edge of the road.

It left the opposite side of the roadway and crashed through a barbed wire fence, overturning in a field. ^{[2] [3] [1] [15]}

Neither of the passengers were wearing seat belts and both were ejected from the vehicle.

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Jacqueline died as a result of the crash.

Manuela sustained major right leg trauma. ^{[2] [3] [1] [15]}

"Jacqueline, please wake up,” Sanchez can be heard saying in the video.

“I fucking killed my sister, okay?

I know I’m going to jail for life.”

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Obdulia complained of pain in her chest and right knee.

She was booked into the Merced County Jail on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs and causing injury as well as gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. ^{[2] [3] [1] [15]}

A follower on Obdulia's Instagram saved the video of the incident and uploaded it to Facebook, where it was picked it up by international media and uploaded to sites LiveLeak and Twitter. ^{[2] [23] [12] [3]}

Obdulia Sanchez has received death threats because of the single-vehicle crash.

In a phone interview from jail (with CBS 47 Eyewitness News), Obdulia Sanchez responds to such threats: “You’re only gonna make my parents suffer more. You’re not gonna help anybody else. My parents right now are grieving. They want, they want me back home.” ^[30]

On July 26, 2017, Obdulia appeared via remote camera in Merced County Superior Court and pleaded not guilty to all charges against her. ^{[25] [24]}

Sanchez had an alleged blood alcohol content of 0.101 at the time of the fatal car crash.

The legal limit in California is 0.08. ^{[25] [24]}

Also on July 26, 2017, Obdulia Sanchez' defense attorney, Ramnik Samrao, told reporters that his client is "absolutely broken apart.

She feels terrible."

"Whether or not a crime was actually committed in this case, that is what the justice system is about.

Everybody is presumed innocent until proven guilty."

• Attorney Ramnik Samrao

"I think that it’s very unfortunate that so many people would rush to judge Ms. Sanchez in this case based on a few minutes of a video clip.

They’ve never walked a single step in her shoes.

They don’t know how she’s been a foster child.

They don’t know that she’s been a victim of human sex trafficking."

• Attorney Ramnik Samrao ^[31]

On September 13, 2017 at a preliminary hear ing, Obdulia Sanchez' attorney, Ramnik Samrao, pointed out discrepancies in the reports involving Obdulia's blood sample.

CHP Officer Christopher Smith testified that he got the wrong name of the nurse who drew the blood at Los Banos Memorial Hospital.

"I think that's a serious problem because there's an absolute possibility [...] that they could have mixed up the blood.

It's possible," Ramnik Samrao has stated.

Obdulia wept as the videos were shown in the courtroom.^[29]

On February 8, 2018, Obdulia Sanchez was sentenced to six years and four months in a state prison.

She has stated, "I don’t want to go to prison, but I deserve whatever punishment i receive."

She has also stated, "[my sister] didn’t deserve to die the way she did.

And it should have been me."

"I’m just tired of harming the people i love."

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Sanchez has also remarked, "If she was here in this courtroom, I would like to say i’m so sorry.

And that if i could take your place I really would."

"I wanted better for her.

I wanted her to be smarter than I ever was.

And now she’s dead.

It should’ve been me.

I should have been hurt or killed.

Never Jackie.

And never Manuela."

Concerning the famous live-streamed video: [Obdulia] "This is the last thing I wanted to happen, okay?

Alright?

I don’t f---ing care at all.

I’ma hold it down.

I love you.

Rest in peace, Sweetie.

<> If you don’t survive baby, I’m so f---in’ sorry."

" And when she says things like ‘I don’t care’, what she’s saying is she doesn’t care what the consequences to her are. She just wants people to show up to help her sister." Attorney Ramnik Samrao ^[27]

Sanchez has stated, "When I look at my mom’s face, I know she hates me.

I would hate myself too.

I’m such a disappointment to my parents."

Unfortunately, Obdulia Sanchez suffered a very harsh childhood at 11.

And at 13, she was abducted, tortured, and forced to abuse methamphetamine and alcohol.

This started her addictions to drugs and alcohol; some say this possibly even negates entirely any culpability she might have had in the crash.

Attorney Ramnik Samrao said that if Obdulia had stayed in the group home (access to medical care, support, counseling, psychological health care) instead of going back to her original residence (lack of aforesaid care), she never would have crashed on July 21, 2017.^[28]