More than five years after two members of a Wood County family died in a head-on vehicle crash on Hwy. 37 north of Mineola, the driver who survived the crash accepted a plea bargain on Friday.

Kaylie Michelle Hasten, 29, of Mineola pleaded guilty to three of the four counts on which she was indicted and will serve eight years of community supervision.

On Jan. 2, 2020 about 8:30 p.m., Anna Ruth Bates, 46, of Quitman was traveling north on Texas Hwy. 37 in a 2015 Dodge Journey around a curve over a creek bridge three miles north of Mineola. Her vehicle was hit head-on by a 2003 Toyota 4-Runner driven by Hasten, then 24, who was driving south on Hwy. 37.

Bates died at the scene, and her grandson, Zander Bates, seven months, died three days later.

Two girls, ages 4 and 6, were also in Bates’ vehicle and were released from Children’s Medical Center soon after the crash.

Hasten was also seriously injured, and her one-year-old daughter was also hospitalized in stable condition.

On March 31, 2021, Hasten was indicted on two counts of criminally negligent homicide, which is a state jail felony.

On Aug. 31, 2022,  she was indicted for two counts of injury to a child-serious bodily injury, a second degree felony.

The cases were scheduled to go to trial on March 3, but the guilty pleas were entered in 402nd District Court on Friday.

For one case of criminally negligent homicide, Hasten was found guilty and received two years in state prison which was suspended for five years of community supervision and 120 hours of community service.

In the second case she received deferred adjudication with eight years community supervision, 160 hours of community service and a $1,000 fine plus court costs.

On one count of injury to a child-serious bodily injury, she was found guilty and sentenced to 10 years in state prison suspended for eight years community supervision with 240 hours community service.

The second count was dismissed.