Summarize the following news article in one sentence.
News article: NAME_1 died after NAME_2 NAME_3's car struck her on Prescot Road, St Helens, on 24 March. NAME_3 pleaded guilty to causing death by dangerous driving at an earlier hearing at Liverpool Crown Court. He was handed a jail sentence of nine years and four months.
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