DWI Hit Parade!

From Seattle PI.com
SEATTLE — The man accused of killing a Google software developer during a drunken road-rage incident has been freed, and the victim’s friends say they’re outraged.
State troopers say Steve Lacey was running errands when an SUV crossed the center line and killed him at NE 85th and Interstate 90.
On Monday, prosecutors requested that bail for Patrick Rexroat be set at $1 million, citing his blood-alcohol level measure 0.328 – four times the legal limit – at the time of his arrest. But because Rexroat had no prior criminal history, the judge set bail at $50,000. ….MORE

From iNSIDENOVA.com
Occoquan-area woman charged with DUI after pursuit
An Occoquan-area woman was charged on Monday night after police said that she led them on a chase through a portion of the eastern end of Prince William County.
Police tried to stop a car driven by Carolyn Ann Gallegos while on Opitz Boulevard, near the Potomac Festival shopping center and Potomac Hospital at 11:26 p.m. for an apparent DUI, Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok said.
Gallegos ignored the officer’s lights and siren, and continued to drive further down Opitz Boulevard, Perok said. ….MORE

From Times Union blog Pay it Forward by Mary Kenney reflecting on the crash on Sunday in which a man killed his son and the son’s girlfriend….
It was New Year’s Eve, 1981. I was 10 years old. My friend Mary Beth was visiting for the weekend. Mary Beth and I walked down my street to my friend Becky’s house and knocked on the door. “Is Becky home?” I asked her mother.
“No. She’s over Sarah’s house, but Sarah’s brother is supposed to be driving her home around 5:00 if you want to come back.” Becky and I had not spoken for a year because of some silly fight we had about something that I can’t even remember. I wanted to invite her over my house that night for New Years Eve. My parents were having company, and I missed my friend.   ….MORE

From WAVE
ELIZABETHTOWN, KY (July 27, 2011) – The father accused of crashing his SUV while drunk on I-65, killing his two year old daughter was in court Monday.
Arturo Martinez Rodriguez, 22, listened to the charges against him through an interpreter. WAVE 3 has learned that Rodriguez is in the U.S. illegally and he’s being investigated by federal agents.
Rodriguez is charged with murder, DUI, driving without a license, failing to maintain insurance, and failing use a child safety seat. On Friday, police say Martinez lost control of his SUV near the Glendale exit on Interstate 65, crossed the median and flipped.
His two-year-old daughter, Sidolena Martinez was thrown from the vehicle and killed. The little girl’s mother, Silena Smith was also in the SUV and has been treated and released from the hospital. ….MORE

From Fox 31 Denver
LONGMONT, Colo. – A Boulder woman is learning how to cope with the loss of her husband, who was killed in a drunk driving accident last month. “It was actually quite a loss, not only as a son, a father, a husband and a brother,” said Brandy Nielsen who lost her husband on June 25. “I haven’t known anybody with a bigger heart than him.” All of that changed exactly one month ago when police say Lisa Norton, a convicted drunk driver, got drunk and slammed into a car her husband Gabe was driving in Longmont. The wreck killed Gabe and left the couple’s two-year-old daughter Avery in a coma……MORE

Woman killed man and tried to swim across lake to get away…caught by boaters for the cops
Prosecutor says suspect doesn’t give a damn…
LONGMONT, Colo. — A Boulder woman accused of causing a fatal car crash and then trying to swim across a lake to escape has been charged with first-degree murder.
Lisa Norton, 32, is accused of driving her pickup truck into a car driven by 33-year-old Gabriel Nielsen of ….MORE