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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 read more Torrance Friday, the news release stated.

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

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

Flowers and candles were placed read more Thursday read more night at the intersection in Redondo Beach where an alleged DUI driver plowed into families who had just attended a school Christmas program, killing three women and leaving nine others injured, including five children.

A group of people surrounded the car and worked to free the boy as he lay pinned beneath the heavy vehicle.

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.

"I now have the tools to move past this," Phelps told the judge, according to the AP. "What I did was wrong, and I made a bad mistake. I'm looking forward read more to having a much brighter future than I had in the past."

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

This is the second time Phelps, 29, has been convicted of driving under the influence. His first charge was also in Maryland in 2004. Following that conviction, USA Swimming banned him from the sport for six months, and Phelps went into a six-week treatment program immediately after the incident.

“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 read more under the influence of,” Hoffman said.

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