Category Archives: Alcohol-Related Accidents
Dallas highway race, alcohol caused seven-vehicle crash
An early morning multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 35 was caused by street racing, according to police investigators and a witness who saw the Dallas crash. Two people died in the multiple car accidents, three victims were hospitalized and an unidentified person was charged with criminally negligent homicide. Chaos erupted on the highway after a… Read More »
Suspect in fatal Fort Worth crash found hiding in garage
A 61-year-old Fort Worth suspect tried everything he could to elude police and nearly escaped capture. The man was wanted for trying to pass off a counterfeit bill at a convenience store. He led police on a wild chase that included a fatal car accident and an almost-undetected hideaway. After a store clerk alerted… Read More »
Drunk driver sentenced for Richmond vehicular manslaughter
A Richmond, Texas driver may spend more time in prison than the number of years he has been alive. The 24-year-old’s sentences for intoxicated manslaughter, intoxicated assault and evidence tampering will be served concurrently, up to the longest sentence of 25 years. A fatal drunk-driving accident is the source of the charges. One woman… Read More »
Misdemeanor turned felony nets repeat DWI driver 8 years
Tarrant County prosecutors dusted off a decade-old, unused state law in the recent trial of an alleged drunk, unsafe driver. The Fort Worth defendant was drunk and drugged when he smashed into a parked vehicle and set off a multi-vehicle, non-injury car accident. Physical damage was extensive, but no one was hurt in the… Read More »
Woman’s companion could be charged in pedestrian death
A woman trying to cross southbound Loop 12 in the dark was the victim of a pedestrian-vehicle accident in Irving recently. Police may not blame the driver who struck the woman. However, officials are considering filing charges against the man the car accident victim had been with just before she died. The story leading… Read More »
Alleged drunk driver kills man trapped in Conroe wreck
Traffic along an eastbound highway in Conroe, Texas was redirected for five hours as investigators pieced together the circumstances surrounding a three-vehicle accident. Authorities have cited one driver for a traffic violation and charged another man with manslaughter for the death of a truck driver caught in the middle of a chain reaction crash…. Read More »
