COLLEGE STATION, TX — One person was hospitalized following a car accident with an alleged drunk driver in College Station, Texas on Thursday, October 2nd, 2014. The news from KBTX said the accident happened early Thursday morning.
One woman was hurt when the two cars collided while driving on Texas Avenue. Police think that a car that was traveling south on Texas Avenue turned in front of a northbound car. The northbound car struck the southbound car broadside in the middle of the turn.
The driver of the northbound car was taken to a nearby hospital with unspecified injuries.
Authorities identified the offending driver as 34-year-old Jennifer LaFrance, who currently faces charges of intoxication assault in connection with the accident.
The College Station Police are still investigating the accident.
Scene of the Accident
Commentary:
Just as drivers have a duty not to get behind the wheel while drunk, bars have a very similar responsibility not to serve people too much to drink. Why? Just as when people drive drunk, when bars serve too much to drink, accidents tend to happen .Sure, some people may get behind the wheel drunk and make it home just fin, and sometimes bars may over-serve without incident. But when a bar over-serves a driver that gets into an accident, both the drunk driver and the bar they came from need to be punished as harshly as possible. Police will gladly throw a drunk driver in jail, but it is up to victims to punish bars, and The State of Texas equipped citizens with the tools to do so.
–Grossman Law Offices
