Family members of a 60-year-old postal worker run over and left for dead on a Gardena street last year lambasted the driver who hit him, telling her she showed no compassion or regard for human life when she drove away and went to a bar.

The driver, Vanessa Yanez, 24, never turned to look at Jesse Dotson Jr.’s daughter, Alyssa Dotson, and sister, Annette Dotson Woodard, as they spoke Thursday in Torrance Superior Court, where Yanez — the daughter of a Los Angeles police sergeant — was sentenced to two years in state prison following a plea deal with prosecutors.

“To this day, no one from the accused has reached out and offered any compassion for our loss, showed any remorse, only indifference, as if we are the cause of this situation,” Alyssa Dotson said. “We have lost a husband, father, grandfather, brother, friend that will leave a huge hole within our family dynamic forever.”

Woodard said Yanez should have stopped after hitting her brother.

“Young lady, your decision that night not to stop, you caused this,” Woodard said.

Yanez declined the opportunity to speak in court. Out on bail since the crash, Yanez was handcuffed and led away to serve her prison time. She likely will be released on parole in a year, Deputy District Attorney Philip Norris said.

Alyssa Dotson said in an interview that she believed her father stood a chance to survive the accident that night if Yanez had stopped immediately and called 9-1-1 to summon help. Her father died three days later in a hospital.

The longtime mail handler from Gardena was making his regular nightly bicycle ride to work when Yanez struck him shortly before 10 p.m. on El Segundo Boulevard at Vermont Avenue. She drove away, meeting a friend at a Huntington Park nightclub. In an effort to cover up the crime, she reported her 2006 Toyota Corolla stolen to Huntington Park police to make it look like someone else was driving it that night.

A Huntington Park police officer became suspicious when he saw a television news report of Dotson’s death, and recognized that Yanez lived about a mile from where Dotson was killed. She was quickly arrested.

As her trial neared in June, Yanez agreed to the two-year sentence in return for a no-contest plea to felony counts of hit-and-run driving and perjury, and a misdemeanor count of vehicular manslaughter. Norris said he believed Yanez was criminally negligent to a “moderate degree,” and was not drunk when she struck Dotson, so the crime rose only to misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter. Yanez had no previous criminal record.

Her more serious crimes occurred when she drove away from the crash and tried to cover up what happened, he said.

“If she had stopped, she would have faced a misdemeanor, which would have meant perhaps a little bit of time in jail and probation,” Norris said.

Alyssa Dotson, who wears some of her father’s ashes inside a heart pendant on a necklace, said two years was not enough.

“It’s unjust to me,” she said. “I don’t feel like justice has been served for my father, knowing all that he has brought to this world. Justice has not been served.”

Jesse Dotson also worked as a substitute teacher in the Compton Unified School District. He and his wife, Lorna Ashley Dotson, had three sons and three daughters ranging from 25 to 40 years old. He had two grandchildren when he died, and another grandchild was born following his death.

“It’s not fair and that was just cold to leave him in the street and not try to help him, and to play the little lie game and to report the car stolen. Who does that?” his widow said.

Yanez’s father, Arturo Yanez, left court quickly, waving off reporters.

“It’s really despicable that that’s the child of law enforcement, someone who should have taught their child to do the right thing,” Lorna Dotson’s said. “It’s not fair people can just run over people and get two years. That’s less than you get for killing a dog.”