Beaumont, TX — October 30, 2024, Dequan Bruno was injured as the result of a car accident at around 2:42 a.m. along U.S. 69.
According to initial details released about the accident, it happened off the corner of Cardinal Drive and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Investigators report that the driver of a Chevy Equinox was going southbound along northbound lanes. 24-year-old Dequan Bruno was in a Chevy Impala going northbound, and the two vehicles collided head-on. Due to this, Bruno was seriously injured.
Right now, details allege that the Chevy driver was intoxicated at the time of the accident, no further information is available.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
While details aren’t confirmed, it would be unusual if there wasn’t an intoxicated driver involved here. It’s almost always the reason someone gets on the wrong side of a divided roadway. But as open-and-shut as that may sound, there could be more to this situation that even authorities haven’t addressed. If the wrong-way driver was coming from a local bar, did the bar unlawfully over-serve them?
Simply put, alcohol providers in Texas unlawfully over-serve people if they provide alcohol to someone who is obviously intoxicated. This can expose them to potential criminal investigations, fines, suspended licenses, or liability for injuries resulting from the intoxication. Not only does this provide a path to see those alcohol providers held accountable, it can help put them on the straight-and-narrow so they don’t continue putting lives at risk.
Ultimately, authorities may have already investigated these possibilities, and maybe there was just an individual drunk driver involved in this accident. However, I’ve handled countless cases where authorities initially overlooked a negligent alcohol provider until our independent investigations brought them to light. Would secondary investigations here yield similar results?
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