Instead of planning a wedding, the families of Jacob Hahn and Savannah Harding had to plan their funeral.

The woman responsible for their death has been sentenced to prison.

Samantha Hammons, 55, Toledo, appeared Thursday in the courtroom of Wood County Common Pleas Judge Matt Reger. She will be 75 years old when she is eligible to be released from prison.

Hammons was driving intoxicated when she caused the chain-reaction crash on Dec. 9 on U.S. 20 in which Hahn and Harding were killed.

There isn’t a second in the day that our kids are not remembered, said Tiffany McMillin about her daughter, Savannah.

“She was the center of our universe,” she said. “Twenty-two years of making this beautiful soul all gone in an instant. All we have now are memories.”

Jacob was the love of her life, they did everything together and were “two peas in a pod,” McMillin said.

They were both amazing parents to Beckett, she said, and were planning a wedding in June.

“Beckett now has to grow up never knowing the two people who loved him the most in the world,” she said.

McMillin was babysitting the baby the day of the crash after making Christmas cookies with Savannah that morning.

Just before 7 p.m. on Dec. 9, Hammons was driving a Kia Soul at a high rate of speed westbound on Route 20 approaching the Lemoyne Road overpass. Her two adult daughters were in the vehicle with her, said Wood County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Brian Boos.

She struck the rear of a Ford Fusion, which was occupied by Hahn and Harding. The impact caused the Fusion to spin across the center line and sideways into the eastbound lane and was struck by an eastbound 2019 Dodge Journey.

The crashed caused the death of Hahn, 24, and Harding, 22, and sent both adult passengers in the Journey to the hospital, Boos said.

Body cam footage of a Wood County Sheriff’s deputy showed Hammons admitting she had been drinking and that she was the driver of the Soul.

An hour after the crash, Hammons had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.16, double the legal limit, Boos said.

“The evidence, both circumstantially and forensically, would establish that the defendant was impaired while operating the Kia Soul on Dec. 9, which impacted her ability to react,” he said.

Air bag data showed Hammons was traveling at 109 mph five seconds before the crash, 90 mph when she applied her brakes one-half second before impact and was going 79 mph when she struck the Fusion.

The driver of the Journey, who was travelling 62 mph, had not time to avoid striking the Fusion, Boos said.

Savannah’s sister, Morgan McMillin, spoke of all the things Beckett would never have, including smiles and kisses from his parents, due to the selfish, voluntary and criminal acts of one person.

He also will never walk down the aisle on his wedding day with his parents by his side, will never have the brothers and sisters his parents were so looking forward to having, will never learn how to play soccer from his father or how to ride a horse from his mother, will never look out at graduation and see his parents, and will never see the love his mom and dad had for each other, Morgan McMillin said.

Brandon Hahn described his older brother’s character as “perfection.”

“Jacob was loved and loved so many people in his short life,” he said.

Victim advocate Abbey Mae Flynn said Hahn’s mother received a text Dec. 9 alerting her something had happened to the couple. She immediately called Tiffiny McMillin. They determined the location of the couple’s phones and Hahn’s father and brother and Harding’s father arrived at the scene to find their family members deceased.

“They realized it was now their job to do the most horrific thing … to tell the two mothers of these beautiful children that their kids were gone,” Flynn said.

“Instead of walking Savannah down the aisle, we were placing her and Jake side by side in the grave,” said Jobe McMillin, Savannah’s father.

It was reported Zachery Bollinger, who was driving the Journey, was hospitalized for a broken right ankle and knee, broken right wrist and fractured sternum. His wife, Megan, suffered a broken ankle, severe lacerations to her hand and a concussion. Their 2-year-old daughter, who was in a car seat, had lacerations on her forehead and friction burns on her shoulders.

Defense attorney Hamilton Noll said his client had no prior arrests for drunk driving and that she pleaded guilty to prevent the families from sitting through repeated court appearances.

At least 50 family members and friends of the deceased attended Thursday’s hearing.

“It only takes one time to wreck a family, to take a child, a parent, a sibling, a friend – just one time, one choice,” Boos said in response to Hammons not having any prior OVI convictions.

“I chose to plead guilty to everything to get this behind them, because they deserve to be able to heal,” Hammons said. “I am totally responsible.”

Hammons was charged with two counts of aggravated vehicular homicide, two counts of aggravated vehicular assault, and operating a vehicle while under the influence.

“Let’s not call this an accident,” Reger said. “It was preventable.”

Reger, who said he received 94 letters from people who were affected by the couple’s death, imposed a minimum definite term of 20 years with an indefinite of 24 years in the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction.

He also suspended Hammons’ driver’s license for life.