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ALCOHOL SUSPECTED AS A CAUSE IN TWO HEAD-ON COLLISIONS IN VAN ALYSTINE


February 03, 2010
Topic: Auto Accidents: Drunk Driving

Tuesday was a deadly day for drivers near Van Alstine, Texas as police responded to 2 separate head on collisions.

Around 7:00 PM on State Highway 75 and County Line Road, police say a female driver headed south in the northbound lanes and collided head-on with a car headed north. That driver was also taken to Wilson N. Jones. According to police they suspect the crash was alcohol-related, and that charges are pending against the wrong way driver. Meanwhile, both drivers involved in this accident were transported to Wilson N. Jones Medical Center in Sherman in critical condition.

Around 8:00 PM the same night wrecks occurred on State Highway 75 within an hour. Around nine o'clock Monday night, police began receiving 911 calls that a driver of a Ford Explorer was headed the wrong way down highway 75 from Sherman into Van Alstyne. Although officers tried warn approaching vehicles and to get the driver to pull over, she ended up crashing into a Toyota Corrolla head-on at approximately 70 miles per hour. Both drivers were taken to Wilson N. Jones in Sherman with serious injuries. Hien Vuong, the driver of the Toyota, a 64-year-old woman from Garland, died from her injuries. The wrong way driver, Bobbi Elvington (44) of Sherman was released from the hospital and booked into the Grayon County Jail for Intoxication Manslaughter.

Sadly, incidents of drunk driving in Texas and across the nation continue to occur. On average, someone is killed by a drunk driver every 40 minutes. (NHTSA 2007 - Traffic Safety Annual Assessment: Alcohol Impaired Driving Fatalities). In 2007 alone, an estimated 12,998 people were killed in the United States in alcohol-impaired driving crashes. Even scarier is the fact that Texas leads the nation in drunk driving incidents. Texas ranks #1 in the country for alcohol-related traffic fatalities (NHTSA, 2006 and 2007). In 2006 alone, NHTSA estimated 1,569 people were killed in alcohol-related crashes in Texas.

If you or a loved one has been seriously injured or killed by a drunk driver, contact Rachel Montes or Tom Herald for a free case evaluation if you have been injured in a wreck by a drunk driver. Our firm handles cases all across Texas, including Grayson County, Collin, Denton, Dallas, Tarrant, Travis, Harris and San Patricio counties as well as other Texas counties. In these cases, we believe it is extremely important to not only focus on the loss of your loved ones, but also to do what we can to get justice and to hold drunk drivers accountable for their actions. We are a supporter of MADD and are trying to get new legislation to further reduce incidents of drunk driving.

Our main office is located in Irving, Texas just a few miles from DFW Airport and Love Field, and we can quickly come to visit you. For more information about our attorneys and our law firm, visit our website at www.MontesHerald.com.


The experienced personal injury attorneys of the Montes Herald Law Group, LLP, based in Irving, TX, represent clients throughout north Texas and statewide, with focus on the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) Metroplex and Dallas County, Tarrant County, Denton County, Harris County, Travis County and Baylor County. This includes cities such as Irving, Las Colinas, Valley Ranch, Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Arlington, Carrollton, Coppell, Lewisville, Grapevine, Addison, Southlake, Colleyville and the Hurst, Euless, Bedford Heb-mid cities area.

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