Illinois: Miguel Rico had an excuse for driving wrong way…besides being an idiot, he was charged with DUI for killing two

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From Chicago Sun-Times

2013-09-09 —A Little Village man is charged with aggravated driving under the influence in an Eisenhower Expy. crash that killed two women over

the weekend.

Miguel Rico, 20, of the 2400 block of South Christiana, was traveling in the wrong direction at 2 a.m. Saturday when the van he was driving collided with a car carrying three friends from the western suburbs. Two women died and one woman was injured, police said. Rico was wanted on a warrant, court records show.

In 2011, he violated his probation in a drug possession case.

On Sunday, a judge ordered Rico held without bond in that case.

Rico is expected to appear in court Monday for a bond hearing on the aggravated DUI charge. Brittney Mouzon, the survivor in the car, recalled that one of her friends had screamed, “Oh my god,” before the crash. ….MORE