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Prosecutors have filed felony charges against the 46-year-old Oakland man whose car ran a red light and killed a 20-year-old UC Berkeley student at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday. 

Christine Phan Dao died in the crash after her car was struck by a vehicle driven by Kenneth Ray Wheeler as he drove north on San Pablo Avenue at the University Avenue intersection. 

Berkeley Police spokesperson Officer Joe Okies said Wheeler was charged with running a red light and a variety of other intoxication and driving counts under the California Vehicle Code. 

Wheeler was transferred to the Alameda County Jail after he was treated for injuries at Highland Hospital. 

Because of incorrect information received for the Oct. 28 paper, the Daily Planet reported that Ms. Dao was riding a motorcycle. She was, in fact, driving a car. 

Wheeler was driving a Ford Mustang, Okies said. 

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