A 28-year-old man was charged Tuesday with an alcohol-fueled crash in Fullerton that has a dance instructor fighting for his life.<\/p>\n
Hector Ramon Delacruzjusto was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury, DUI with a blood-alcohol level above .08% or more causing injury, all felonies, as well as an infraction for running a red light. He also faces sentencing enhancements for inflicting great bodily injury.<\/p>\n
Delacruzjusto is accused of having a blood-alcohol level of .10, above the legal limit of .08, according to the criminal complaint.<\/p>\n
The defendant was involved in a three-vehicle crash about 11:30 p.m. Sunday at West Valencia Drive and South Brookhurst Road, police said.<\/p>\n
A 2024 Nissan eastbound on West Valencia Drive collided with a 2022 Mazda SUV southbound on South Brookhurst Road, police said. The Mazda then collided with a 2023 Tesla northbound on South Brookhurst Road, police said.<\/p>\n
The Tesla driver was rushed to a local hospital, police said.<\/p>\n
The victim\u2019s fiancee and mother of the couple\u2019s 6-year-old son said in a GoFundMe account that Mikey DellaVella was in intensive care \u201cfighting for his recovery.\u201d He \u201csuffered multiple skull and facial fractures, a traumatic brain injury, and brain bleeding,\u201d and \u201cremains on a ventilator and under sedation,\u201d according to the account seeking help with medical bills.<\/p>\n
Delacruzjusto pleaded not guilty Tuesday at his arraignment in the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana and was next due in court for a pretrial hearing June 17 in the North Justice Center in Fullerton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 28-year-old man was charged Tuesday with an alcohol-fueled crash in Fullerton that has a dance instructor fighting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,10753,350,36517,2628,11834,16215],"class_list":["post-355499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-charged","tag-crash","tag-dancer","tag-fullerton","tag-injured","tag-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}