A Delmar woman was charged with manslaughter on May 9 after, State Police say, she was driving drunk, causing a fatal wrong-way crash.

Veronica Armbruster, 59, was charged with driving while intoxicated as well as with two felonies — second-degree manslaughter and second-degree vehicular manslaughter — along with numerous Vehicle and Traffic Law violations.

The crash occurred on Feb. 20 on Interstate-90 in Amsterdam, according to a release from the State Police, which said events unfolded this way: Armbruster was driving east, the wrong way, in the Thruway’s westbound lanes when she struck a vehicle driven by Cole Michael Sevigny, 26, of Hudson, New Hampshire, traveling west. Both drivers, each alone in their cars, needed to be extricated.

Both drivers were seriously injured and each was taken, by ambulance, to a hospital. Sevigny was later pronounced dead at Saint Mary’s Hospital.

Armbruster allegedly had a blood alcohol content of 0.16 percent at the time of the crash, the release said. The legal limit for driving in New York state is 0.08 percent.

Armbruster surrendered herself to State Police in Fonda, the release said, where she was arrested and processed. She was then arraigned at the Amsterdam City Court were she was remanded to Montgomery County’s jail in lieu of $10,000 cash, $100,000 bond, or a $100,000 partially secured bond.

Armbruster’s LinkedIn profile says she has worked for decades as a nurse practitioner at Delmar Pediatrics. Her profile on the Delmar Pediatrics site describes her as a married mother of four with a passion for holistic healing that led her to missionary work in Calcutta, India with Mother Theresa’s sisters of charity. 

Sevigny, according to his obituary, was planning to get married in August. He worked with his father in the family business, “DC” ATM Systems as a technician.

“Cole was a gentle giant, a big teddy bear with a heart of gold, loving, caring, and compassionate, always willing to give the shirt off his back to help someone in need,” his obituary said. “He was an intellectual and deep thinker, curious and interested about everything and anything around him.”