Texas City, TX — July 28, 2024, Edward Bishop III was injured as the result of a car accident at around 6:00 p.m. along F.M. 646.
Authorities said in preliminary statements that the accident took place at the intersection of F.M. 646 and F.M. 3436.
It appears 64-year-old Edward Bishop III was in a Chevy Suburban going northbound on F.M. 3436. At F.M. 646, Bishop was attempting a left turn when an eastbound Ford Escape crashed into the side of the Chevy. As a result, Bishop sustained serious injuries. The driver had less serious injuries.
Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman
Right now, details suggest that the Ford driver may have been under the influence of alcohol at the time. If that’s true, where was that driver coming from? Folks tend to think alcohol makes things more simple, since that’s obviously wrong. In Texas, though, it can make things more complex if that alcohol came from a local alcohol provider who illegally over-served the driver.
Simply put, it’s illegal in Texas for alcohol providers to serve someone who is obviously intoxicated. Doing so means those alcohol providers can be subject to criminal investigations, fines, license suspensions, and even liability when people get hurt. While authorities have yet to mention anything like that here, it’s not often the sort of thing their preliminary investigations consider. I’ve had hundreds of cases against negligent alcohol providers, and our evidence usually comes from independent investigations, not from anything police took steps to investigate. It wouldn’t be unusual if that was something that still needed to be investigated here, as well.
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