It’s no joke, if you drink and drive and cause an accident, you are headed for a nightmare in Houston or anywhere else in Texas for that matter.
Texas juries have been very tough on drunk or impaired drivers. In a recent truck accident in Brazoria County, a truck driver was sentenced to 7 years for manslaughter in the wrongful death accident where a man in a pickup that was stopped for construction was rear ended and killed by a tractor trailer.
In a different Texas wrongful death case that I recently handled a drunk driver ran into the back of a car killing the plaintiff.
In the criminal trial over that fatality, lawyers for the drunk driver plead him guilty and tried the sentence phase to a jury. The 64-year-old man who drove drunk was sentenced to 19 years in prison, in effect a life sentence.
The moral of this story is that it is not the old days when it comes to drunk drivers, if you have an injury accident drunk in Texas, you will not like the consequences.
If you have been injured by a drunk driver and would like to talk to a Houston drunk driver injury attorney call the Baumgartner Firm.
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