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It was not immediately clear whether alcohol or read more drugs were a factor in the crash, but police said they believed Bronstein had prescription medications in her system.

Phelps read more had recently come out of retirement with plans to compete in a fifth Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Being on probation is not likely to affect those plans.

“At the very minimum, prescription medication is involved. However, it is going to take some time to get a complete toxicology report and determine exactly everything that she may have been under the influence of,” Hoffman said.

Driving-relating restrictions required her to drive a vehicle that had hand-controlled brakes, an additional right side mirror and an adequate signaling device, according to Yee.

On Sunday, a suspected drunk driver was arrested after allegedly running through a crowd of pedestrians in Alhambra, leaving 13 people injured.

“The vehicle actually carried some of the pedestrians and then collided head-on with another vehicle that was traveling southbound … and actually threw a couple of the pedestrians into another vehicle,” Hoffman said.

Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps was sentenced to 18 months' supervised probation today after pleading guilty to drunken driving.

The collision in Redondo Beach was the second DUI-related crash in L.A. County involving read more pedestrians that resulted in the injuries of at least a dozen people in less than a week.

Margo Bronstein of Redondo Beach was arrested on suspicion of felony vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, police said Thursday.

Bronstein was being held at the Redondo Beach Police Department jail on $300,000 bail. She was scheduled to make her first court appearance in Torrance Friday, the news release stated.

Details regarding Bronstein’s vehicle, medical read read more more condition and medications were not being released during the investigation, police said Thursday afternoon.