Category: Drunk Driving and DUI
Drunk Driving Car Accident on Broadway Bridge Kills One
Date: December 29, 2010 Location: Portland, OR Names: Ashley Dettra, Andres Guillermo Escobedo Ashley Dettra, age 20 of Hillsboro, was ejected from the SUV she was riding in on the morning of December 26, 2010 and died at the scene. She was engaged to the driver of the vehicle at the time of her death,… read more
Statistics Released for New Year’s Holiday DUII Arrests in Oregon
Date: January 1, 2011 Location: State of Oregon Statistics Names: Hadley Anne Alger, Collin Runnels, Anne Pendleton Note: The reported fatality statistic may change if other information is received later by Oregon law enforcement agencies. This year’s 78-hour New Year’s Holiday reporting period began at 6:00pm December 30 and ended at 11:59pm January 2, 2011… read more
Drunk Driver Causes Rollover Crash
Date: August 12, 2010 Location: I-205 near West Linn, Oregon Names: Ryan J. Porter, [Unknown] A 22-year-old man was cited for drunk driving and other charges after a single-car rollover crash that injured him and his female passenger, according to an OSP press release. On August 12, 2010, around 1:55 AM, a car driven by… read more
Drunk Driver Cited After Crash
Date: July 11, 2010 Location: Highway 97 near Moro, Oregon Names: Cesar Perez Fausto, Alvaro Lamprea, Jorge Angel-Moliner, Bioleta Angel-Moliner, Aylin Perez, Scott Ekman, Timothy Roth A drunk driver was cited and released after rear-ending a car and causing life-threatening injuries to a pedestrian on July 11, 2010, around 2:20 AM, on Highway 97 near… read more
Drunk Driving, Hit-and-Run: A Double Outrage
Date: July 22, 2010 As Portland personal injury attorneys, we work hard for justice. So we were glad, recently, to see justice in action, when a Clackamas County court put a drunk, hit-and-run driver behind bars. It won’t bring back his victim, but it will give him plenty of time to think – and we… read more
Drunk Driver Sentenced to Three Years in Fatal Crash
Date: June 25, 2010 Christopher John Rice, 27, of Vancouver, Washington, was sentenced to 3-1/2 years in prison on June 25, 2010, for the 2009 fatal car crash that killed his 25-year-old girlfriend. According to a Portland Police Bureau press release, on December 28, 2009, around 2:45 AM, a car driven by Rice hit a… read more
Drunk Driver Charged in Two-Car Crash
Date: June 18, 2010 Location: Highway 219 near St. Paul, Oregon Names: Micheal R. Macaulay, Curtis Paul Terry A drunk driver turned into the path of another car on Highway 219 near St. Paul, Oregon, and the resulting crash injured both drivers, according to an OSP news release. Around 4 PM on June 18, 2010,… read more
Salem Man Jailed After Fatal 2-Car Crash
Date: June 6, 2010 Location: Highway 223 near Dallas, Oregon Names: Lisa Koloen, Brock Britt Brock Britt, a 24-year-old Salem, Oregon man, is being held at Polk County Jail on multiple charges, including manslaughter and criminally negligent homicide, after a drunk-driving crash that killed a woman, according to an OSP press release. The two-car, head-on… read more
Drunk Driving Crash Kills Motorcyclist
Date: May 30, 2010 Location: Highway 30 near Astoria, Oregon Names: Andrew Stuart Church, Kenneth Eugene Middleton A man driving drunk, with his 13-year-old daughter in the car, was jailed following a fatal crash over the Memorial Day weekend on Highway 30 east of Astoria, Oregon. The crash killed Rainier-area motorcyclist Andrew Stuart Church, state… read more
Drunk-Driving Crash Kills Homeless Man
Date: May 13, 2010 Location: I-405 & Burnside, Portland, Oregon Names: Alvaro Lugos-Ponce, [Unknown] Speed and alcohol were factors in a crash that killed a sleeping homeless man on I-405 northbound under Burnside Street in Portland Oregon, on May 13, 2010, according to a press release by the Portland Police Bureau. The Oregon fatal crash… read more