Child Killed in Alcohol-Related Wrong Way Driving Accident in Houston-Texas Injury Lawyers
The destruction that a drunk driver can wreak was plain to see over the weekend when a nine-year-old child was killed in a fatal DWI accident in Houston.
The accident occurred on early Sunday morning. A mother and her four children had just spent the night at church at an all-night prayer session and were returning home. The children in the car were aged between 9 and 14. The car was traveling on Aldine Mail Route when the mother noticed a driver headed the wrong way and right towards them. She swerved hard to avoid hitting the pickup truck, but failed to avoid impact. The nine-year-old girl, who was sitting in the backseat, was killed. All the other occupants of the car had to be taken to the hospital for treatment of their injuries. The driver of the pickup truck, Anthony LeBlanc, 39, was found to be driving while intoxicated. He’s likely to have manslaughter charges filed against him.
Loss of a child is the most unimaginably dreadful thing that could happen to a family, and our hearts go out to the mother and siblings of the child here. They will remain in our prayers and thoughts.
As injury lawyers in Houston, it does not surprise us that the pickup truck driver was driving under the influence. Wrong way driving is an underestimated cause of accidents in the country. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that every year more than 300 people are killed in wrong way driving crashes. Most of these accidents involve a driver who is impaired. Driving drunk can affect your powers of judgment and increase the possibility of making errors while driving.
This accident reminds us of last year’s deadly wrong way driving crash in New York that killed eight people. That crash involved a female motorist driving under the influence of alcohol and crashing her car head on into another vehicle. The devastating head-on crash that resulted, killed eight people including the female driver, her daughter and three other children in her car.
If you or a loved one has been involved in an accident or injury, contact the Husband & Wife Legal Team at The Kahn Law Firm today.
Call 713-226-9900 or toll free 1-877-226-9940 or fill out our “Get Help Now” form to schedule a meeting with a caring and experienced personal injury lawyer at our offices in downtown Houston. The case evaluation is free and we will not charge you attorneys fees on injury cases unless we secure a verdict or settlement for you.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment