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A Tucson man scheduled to go to trial next week in connection with a fatal crash has died of a drug overdose, said Deputy Pima County Attorney Bruce Chalk.

Travis William Mach, 44, died Jan. 20, Chalk said.

Mach was arrested in March 2007, three months after Lorrie May Shirley was killed in a head-on collision near South Houghton and East Drexel roads.

Shirley, 45, died Dec. 19, 2006, when a purple Honda Civic crossed the center line on South Houghton Road and slammed into the Ford Tempo she was driving. Witnesses told police the Honda was weaving in the road erratically before the collision.

Mach, the driver of the Honda, was taken to a hospital in critical condition. He was arrested upon his release because blood tests showed he had alcohol and drugs in his system, Tucson police said at the time.

At the time of her death, Shirley’s family told the Arizona Daily Star that Shirley was a fun-loving and inspirational woman who survived lupus, a sometimes fatal immune-system disorder, two kidney transplants and heart surgery.

According to online court records, Mach pleaded guilty to driving under the influence in 1996.

Chalk said he would ask a Pima County Superior Court judge to formally dismiss the case against Mach Tuesday.