A young woman who was critically injured in a fatal DUI accident on New Year's Eve has died two weeks after the crash.

Nhu Hong, 18, was a foreign exchange student in Oklahoma last year before moving to Washington state to attend college. Over the holidays, she returned to Oklahoma to visit her host family. 

On New Year's Eve, Hong was a passenger in a vehicle driven by her host mother, Amanda Carson, 37. Carson's two daughters, ages 4 and 9, were also in the vehicle. 

At around 11:00 p.m., a vehicle driven by Craig Maker, 30, smashed into the back of Carson's SUV on the Kilpatrick Turnpike in Canadian County. Carson and Hong were ejected from the vehicle. Carson died in the collision; Hong was transported to a local hospital in critical condition. Carson's youngest daughter was treated and released; the 9-year-old was hospitalized for several days before being released.

On Sunday, two weeks after the deadly collision, Hong succumbed to her injuries. Her family, who traveled from Vietnam to be with her, were at her side when she died.

Troopers say Maker was traveling at 116 miles per hour with his headlights off at the time of the crash. He reportedly admitted to troopers that he had "two glasses of whiskey" before the crash, and that it "would be his fifth DUI arrest."

In 2011, Maker had three misdemeanor DUI convictions: one municipal DUI in Oklahoma City, one in Oklahoma County, and one in Logan County. He followed up those three misdemeanors with a felony DUI conviction in Oklahoma County in 2015. Under his felony DUI, Maker should not have been driving any vehicle not equipped with Ignition Interlock.

As a result of the crash, Maker is charged with one count of second degree murder, two counts of causing an accident resulting in great bodily injury while under the influence of alcohol, and one count of DUI involving a personal injury accident. Now that another victim has died of her injuries, one of the "great bodily injury" charges will likely be upgraded to a second count of second degree murder.

Second degree murder is punishable by 10 years to life in prison.

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