Category Archives: injury or death
Illinois: Luis Jimenez charged with Aggravated DUI Death of his Sean Hurley in booze cruise
It is alleged that at approximately 2:00 a.m. Saturday morning, Jimenez left a friend’s house in Wheaton to go for a joy ride. It is further alleged that Jimenez was driving the vehicle at a high rate of speed eastbound at the northbound curve on Sheffield Street in Wheaton when he lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a tree.
Maryland: boozing teens on DUI joyride ends upside down in ditch; DUI charges pending against Sienna Lee Brandhorst
According to the Anne Arundel County Police Department, on May 20, 2014, at approximately 12:35 a.m., officers from the Southern District responded to the area of Central Avenue near Loch Haven Road in Edgewater for a reported overturned single vehicle crash. Charges of DUI for the driver await her release from a hospital.
The preliminary investigation revealed that the Toyota Camry was traveling eastbound on Central Avenue near Loch Haven Road when the 18-year-old female driver lost control of the vehicle, causing the vehicle to skid, rotate 180 degrees into a ditch and overturn onto its roof.
The driver, identified as Sienna Lee Brandhorst, 18, of Edgewater, Maryland
Florida: Alexi Mora Gonzales faces DUI murder charges after fleeing from wreck
A man is facing charges after he tried to flee on foot from the scene of a deadly wreck in Miami Sunday, police said.
Alexei Mora Gonzalez, 36, is charged with DUI manslaughter and leaving the scene of a crash involving death in the wreck that happened at Northwest 57th Avenue and 7th Street, jail records showed.
Arizona: Charging Charger pilot Jean P. Villena-Celis charged with DUI death of Juan Lorenzo Avila-Arce
On May 17, 2014, at 2:35 a.m., officers from Operations Division West responded to a report of a vehicle collision in the area of Roger Road and Mountain Avenue. Upon arrival, officers located a 2012 Dodge Charger and a 1991 Volkswagon 4-door which had been involved in a collision.
Louisiana: State Police charge Dustin Richard McGowen for 3rd DWI in smashup with school bus; injured two kids and bus driver
Troopers at the scene suspected narcotic impairment and brought in a State Police Drug Recognition Expert who determined that McGowen was impaired. McGowen would not agree to submit a toxicology sample. A no refusal warrant was then obtained from a state district judge. Once issued, a no refusal warrant allows a law enforcement officer to bring an uncooperative driver to a qualified medical professional in order to obtain a toxicology sample without the driver’s consent.
