Teen Who Live Streamed Crash That Killed Sister: ‘Everyone’ Uses Phones While Driving

The California teen, who live streamed the car accident that killed her younger sister, remained behind bars Monday after pleading not guilty to felony drunk driving and gross vehicular manslaughter. Obdulia Sanchez, 18, said during an interview with KGPE, a CBS affiliate in Fresno, that "everybody" uses their phone while driving and that it wasn’t the first time she had live streamed from behind the wheel.

"We do it all the time – all the time," she said. "Trust me, it’s like a reflex. Like, I haven’t crashed, you know? Everybody does it. Everybody does. They take Snapchats. Everybody does it. Why not? People take video of them in cars like all the time. And I’m only 18 – we’re still young."

Sanchez has been criticized for live streaming the graphic July crash and its aftermath. In the widely circulated video, Sanchez can be seen filming herself while driving and singing with her 14-year-old sister and her sister’s friend in the backseat. Sanchez then turned the camera toward the road before the video becomes blurry. The video continued recording while the car rolled over and smashed through a fence. The sounds of metal shearing could be heard as the car flipped.

Sanchez reportedly continued recording after the car came to a stop and she realized her sister was no longer in the backseat.

"Wake up, baby," she could be heard saying as she stood over her sister’s dead body, still filming.

"I'm f***ing sorry, baby. I did not mean to kill you, sweetie. This is the last thing I wanted to happen, O.K.? Rest in peace, sweetie."

Police said Sanchez’s blood alcohol level was at .10 at the time of the crash. In the interview with KGPE, Sanchez said the video made her look like "a monster."

"I didn’t even know I looked like a monster – like, I look like a freaking horrible monster. That was not my intention at all,” she said. "I just seen [the video] on Sunday and I just started crying. I was like, 'Oh my God, I can’t believe I did that.' If I would’ve known that that would’ve happened that day I would have never left the house ever."

Sanchez also recalled the relationship she had with her little sister and what the situation meant for her parents.

"You’re only going to make my parents suffer more. You’re not going to help anybody else," she told KGPE. "My parents are grieving. They want me back home. The house is super lonely without us. We were like the joy of the house. Just because I’m not crying a river now on the phone, [it] doesn’t mean I’m not remorseful."

Should Sanchez be convicted, she could face more than 13 years in prison. Her lawyer, however, denounced what he called a rush to judgment based on the video evidence. Ramnik Samrao said the accident was caused by a tire blow out—the result of "wear and tear."

"The main thing that I want people to know is that – most people have seen this video and they just have this reaction on the kind of person she is based on this little clip into her life when they don’t know anything about her," Samrao said in in July. "We don’t know that she was drunk. That’s the allegation. She does obviously feel terrible and she’s trying to deal with it in the way that she can."