CROWN POINT | Eric Kilbourne, 25, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for the death of a Gary woman that occurred during a three-car crash in October.

Kilbourne was driving at speeds that exceeded 90 mph and had a blood-alcohol concentration more than twice the legal limit, police have said.

The Gary man pleaded guilty midway through his jury trial in May to all counts related to the crash. He was charged with eight felonies and six misdemeanor charges, including operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated causing death and reckless homicide. He has been convicted twice in the past five years for operating while intoxicated, court records show.

"Eric, you could have seen this coming," Judge Diane Ross Boswell said.

Besides the term for the death of Amanda Montgomery, 23, of Gary, who died at the scene after being ejected from the car, Boswell sentenced Kilbourne to three years for driving while intoxicated while his son was in a car seat in the car. The two sentences will be served concurrently, and Kilbourne's final two years will be served in a forensic diversion program.

Before his sentence was read, Kilbourne turned to Montgomery's family and friends who filled a row in the courtroom.

"If I could bring her back with my own life, I would," he said.

He apologized to them, the others on the road that day and his own family for their pain. He also told the court he asked for a jury trial so he could hear how the accident took place from those who were there that day because he doesn't remember.

Indiana State Police said Kilbourne was driving drunk at high speeds on Interstate 65 when he slammed on his brakes and slid into another car, before flipping his. Neither he nor Montgomery was wearing a seat belt, troopers said. The crash closed northbound I-65 for four hours.