NEW YORK (AP)  -- A college student pleaded guilty Tuesday to vehicular manslaughter in the drunken hit-and-run death of a young woman who had moved to New York City from Scotland.

Tenzing Bhutia, 21, pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident and operating a vehicle while intoxicated. He was promised a term of two years in prison when he is sentenced on June 9.

Bhutia, of Queens, mowed down Julia M. Thomson, 24, as she crossed a street near her Lower East Side apartment on Sept. 30, 2007. He admitted he had been drinking and that he knew he had hit something but kept driving anyway.

State Supreme Court Justice Rena Uviller allowed Bhutia to remain free on $75,000 bail until he is sentenced.

Bhutia's blood alcohol level was 0.087 percent, a fraction over the 0.08 percent upper limit, when he was arrested hours after the accident, according to the felony complaint filed in court.

Police said at the time that a black Mercedes-Benz side mirror was next to Thomson, an Edinburgh native, as she lay on the street bleeding.

About 3{ hours later, police found a damaged black Mercedes in Forest Hills. They said the car, registered to Bhutia's father, was missing a passenger side mirror, had a smashed passenger side windshield and a dented front fender.

The defendant's father, Temdy Bhutia, told police his son had the car around the time Thomson was killed.

Edward Palermo, Bhutia's lawyer, said in October that his client was a senior at Baruch College, where he was majoring in finance, and was an information technology employee at a New York City company.

Palermo did not immediately return a call for comment Tuesday.

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