7 “We’re not going after servers or bars that are conducting business legally, we’re going after people whose actions are criminal and negligent,” said Sean Teare, a prosecutor in charge of the Harris County District Attorney’s Vehicular Crimes Division. In April 2018, Palacios was sentenced to 32 years in prison for murder. Valero was killed and her boyfriend incurred injuries. Palacios had a BAC nearly double the legal limit. 5 A short distance from the bar while fleeing from a police officer, Palacios slammed into a car carrying 18-year-old Jocelynn Valero and her date, who were returning home from prom. Natalia Ortiz, a 25-year-old bartender at El Muelle Seafood Bar was charged with serving a drunk patron (a misdemeanor) – and forging a government document (a felony). On May 16, 2018, a Houston bartender was arrested two years after serving 26-year-old Edin Palacios 11 beers. According to a study done by the Sutliff & Stout Injury and Accident Law Firm, several smaller cities made the top 10 list for drunk driving deaths in 2017 when calculated based on capita (100,000 residents). Houston, San Antonio, Dallas and Austin) incur the highest number of DWI crashes and deaths. Given their size, it’s not surprising Texas’s four largest cities (e.g. An estimated 56% of young adult vehicular crashes in 2017 involved alcohol and 33% of DWI fatalities impacted individuals aged 21 and younger.Preliminary 2017 numbers indicate 13,177 alcohol-related crashes occurred in Texas, resulting in 521 fatalities and 1,271 injuries.2, 2017.), 4,054 traffic crashes in Texas resulted in 44 fatalities and 171 serious injuries. During the 2016 New Year’s Holiday (6:00 p.m., Friday, Dec.1, 2017), 2,321 DUI-alcohol related traffic crashes in Texas resulted in 82 fatalities and 199 serious injuries. Houston led the state in 2016 with 89 fatal DUI crashes.An estimated 31.6% and 69.2% of drivers involved in fatal crashes had BACs of.An estimated 69.2% of alcohol-related driving fatalities involved a BAC of.An estimated 33.1% of alcohol-related driving fatalities impacted people aged 21 and younger.
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In 2016, 1,438 people were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes where a driver was under the influence of alcohol, which comprised 38.1% of all vehicular fatalities.In Texas, a person is hurt or killed in a vehicular crash involving alcohol about every 20 minutes. Felony DWIs with two or more prior convictions: 17.Class A misdemeanor DWIs with a prior conviction: 19.Breath samples taken with consent with.Police collected 81 breath and 41 blood samples with consent, a total of 93 blood search warrants were issued and of 215 DWI arrests, 78 resulted in the following enhanced charges: 2
1 The Austin Police Department held a No Refusal Initiative from May 24 to June 11, in which detectives assisted officers in applying for blood search warrants when suspects under arrest for DWI refused to take a breath or blood test. Although most of these felony cases were the result of a third driving while intoxicated (DWI) charge, 14 people were arrested on a charge of DWI with a child passenger and two were arrested on a charge of intoxicated manslaughter.