Sacramento, California – A retired schoolteacher and prominent leader in the Sacramento Jewish community was killed allegedly by a drunken driver.
Sima Spector, 73, had just dropped off a friend and was driving to her Carmichael home as her 1998 green Toyota Avalon entered the intersection of Fair Oaks Boulevard and Watt Avenue, a 1998 white Lexus GS400 ran a red light, the Lexus hit Spector’s car on the driver’s side. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The driver of the Lexus, Nikita Page, 31, has been arrested on suspicion of felony drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter.
A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Spector was a speech language pathologist in the North Sacramento School District for 28 years.
She was a former president of the Sacramento Jewish Women’s Business and Professional Group, and a leader of the Sacramento Chapter of Hadassah, a Jewish women’s volunteer service organization.