‘Melrose Place’ Actress Causes Fatal Car Accident

Former “Melrose Place actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer was charged with driving drunk and causing a car accident which injured the driver and killed the passenger of the car she plowed into.

Locane-Bovenizer, who played Sandy Louise Harling on “Melrose Place,” was driving a 2007 Chevy Tahoe Sunday night when she slammed into the passenger side of a vehicle that was pulling into a driveway. The passenger, noted art historian Helene Seeman, 60, was killed on impact, while her husband, Fred, was critically injured.

Prior to the fatal car accident, Locane-Bovenzier, 39, rear-ended another vehicle at an intersection just a few miles away and continued driving. The hit-and-run victim followed Locane-Bovenizer, who was “swerving and knocked down several mailboxes.”

Police said they noticed the smell of alcohol on the actress’ breath when they got to the scene of the car accident and reported that her eyes were glassy and her speech was slurred.

Locane-Bovenizer, whose husband is a wine expert, admitted to drinking several glasses of wine before getting behind the wheel.

She appeared before the superior court Monday afternoon, following the car accident, for her arraignment. Bail was set at $50,000. She is charged with vehicular homicide and faces five to 10 years in state prison.