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Jury acquits driver in Atwater crash that killed two sisters. Their family says it’s a ‘hard pill to swallow’

Reading Time: 5 minutes A Merced County jury has acquitted a driver of two counts of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter in a 2022 Atwater crash that killed two women.  The women’s family told The Merced FOCUS they’re disappointed in the outcome. But the defense attorney in the case says a medical episode suffered by the driver – not negligence – caused the tragedy. The deaths of sisters Billie Edwards, 73, and Carolyn Rose, 76, made headlines ac…
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themercedfocus.org broke the news in on Friday, April 3, 2026.
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