A Texas man was sentenced to nine years after being the driver in DUI accident that killed one person. The man’s blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.
The 51-year-old man was sentenced after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter. The charges come from a car accident that occurred in December 2009 that killed a 65-year-old woman and seriously injured her 66-year-old husband.
The man was driving a tractor-trailer when he ran a red light coming off of the ramp of Interstate 75 and struck a Ford that the couple was in. The sentence for this crime can be a sentencing of up to 15 years.
Our thoughts are with the victims in the accident.