ANTELOPE VALLEY : Driver Who Took PCP Gets 10 Years for Fatal Accident

An Antelope Valley man who was on PCP when his truck hit and killed a Caltrans employee working on a freeway was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in state prison for vehicular manslaughter, but not before getting an emotional berating from the victim’s widow.

“You have placed a far greater sentence on me than anything this court could give you today,” a tearful Norma J. Buser told Scott Ellis III, 43, of Lake Los Angeles.

In a plea bargain last month, Ellis pleaded no contest to the charge in the July 29 death of Callie Joel Buser, 55, of West Hills. Buser, a surveying supervisor who had been with Caltrans for just over a year, was standing on the shoulder of the northbound lanes of the Antelope Valley Freeway south of Soledad Canyon Road when Ellis’ truck cut across three lanes of traffic and slammed into him and his truck parked nearby.