Corpus Christi, TX — May 3, 2024, two women and a child were injured following an alleged drunk driver accident at 10:00 p.m. on East Port Avenue.
According to initial details about the accident, it happened near the intersection of Port Avenue and Broadway Street.
Authorities said that a 29-year-old woman, a 32-year-old woman, and an 11-year-old boy were in a Honda Civic which was going southwest along Port Avenue. A Lincoln Mark MKZ going northeast entered oncoming lanes at some point, and it crashed head-on into the Honda. As a result, the driver of the Honda was serious injured while the other woman and the boy had moderate injuries.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
At this time, it’s said that the driver of the Lincoln had been driving drunk and was recommended to be charged for DWI. If it’s true alcohol was a factor here, I have to wonder if authorities bothered investing where that alcohol came from. That may not seem important, but Texas law says alcohol provider who contribute to serious accidents can also face consequences for their actions.
Here’s an example of how this can look. Not long ago, I had a case with details similar to the ones I’m seeing here. A family was hit head-on by a drunk driver who went into oncoming traffic. When the family called us, we asked if authorities looked into where the alcohol came from. They weren’t sure why it mattered, but our investigations soon made it clear why authorities failing to look into that was such a big oversight.
The evidence showed that the drunk driver was at a bar where servers proceeded to break the law and recklessly over-serve him until he was severely intoxicated. It was clear he was a danger to others due to his intoxication—he could barely walk, let alone drive—yet the servers kept pouring so long as he kept buying. Authorities had every reason to investigate that establishment for potential charges, fines, or license suspensions. Instead, it took a family contacting help independent of the authorities to bring that establishment to light so they could finally be held accountable.
I wish I could say that kind of oversight was unusual, but across hundreds of personal injury cases against alcohol providers, I recall few where authorities took steps on their own to look into the negligent alcohol providers. That’s why early statements like these rarely tell the whole story. If investigations don’t go beyond the crash scene, important details tend to slip through the cracks. It wouldn’t surprise me if that happened here, but that’s up to the evidence to say.
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