A Leavenworth woman was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison for drunken driving and other charges after an accident in March killed a man who was helping a stranded motorist.

Fifty-three-year-old Frankie Meza had pleaded no contest in the March 11 death of 21-year-old John Matthew Groves III of Leavenworth.

Groves and another man were pushing a woman’s stalled car into a driveway when Meza struck them from behind. Groves died at the scene. The other man was severely injured but survived.

Meza was sentenced to 79 months for involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence, aggravated battery and leaving the scene of an accident involving death.