A 20-year-old driver, Armando Hernandez-Benitez, faces charges including vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and multiple counts of drunk driving after a March 7 crash. Authorities report the vehicle reached 88 miles per hour and the driver had a blood-alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit before striking another car and stationary objects. A 20-year-old passenger, Elizabeth Fuentes, was killed. The driver’s 4-year-old son sustained serious head lacerations treated with staples, and an 18-year-old passenger suffered a severe brain injury that led to coma and paralysis. The driver was arrested after the crash, later released, and charges were filed on Dec. 10.
"Prosecutors have charged a man with crashing his car while driving drunk through city streets, killing a 20-year-old woman, injuring his 4-year-old son, and sending two others to the hospital, one with a serious brain injury. Armando Hernandez-Benitez, 20, was charged with vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and multiple counts of drunk driving in the March 7 crash. Authorities say he reached speeds of 88 miles per hour, with a blood/alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit, "
"Elizabeth Fuentes, 20, a passenger in the car, was killed. Hernandez-Benitez's 4-year-old son was seriously injured and required 12 stables to treat three cuts on his head. An 18-year-old woman, also a passenger, was hospitalized with a serious brain injury that caused her to become comatoseand suffer paralysis, according to the criminal complaint. Hernandez-Benitez was also briefly hospitalized, and a person in the other vehicle was injured, but not seriously, authorities said."
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