California ? A woman who crashed into a line of stopped vehicles while text-messaging on her cell phone has been sentenced to six years in a California prison for killing a woman in one of the vehicles.

Deborah Matis-Engle was sentenced Friday by a judge in Redding.

Shasta County investigators said Deborah Matis-Engle, 49, was speeding and paying bills by cell phone when she slammed into the vehicles stopped at a construction zone in August 2007.

She was in the middle of one of those transactions when she struck a vehicle that burst into flames, killing 46-year-old Petra Winn.