EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A woman was arrested and charged with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle after a deadly wrong-way crash on I-10 west at Mesa on Tuesday night.
25-year-old Britney Torres was arrested and booked into the El Paso County Jail on a $150,000 bond.
The man who died in the crash was identified as 25-year-old Jesus Chico Jr.
The Special Traffic Investigations Unit reported that Torres was driving a 2017 Ford Mustang in the wrong direction when she collided head-on with Chico’s 2009 Honda Civic.
Torres suffered minor injuries.
According to the arrest affidavit, Torres was driving within the northbound lanes of North Desert and entered I-10 West while traveling eastbound.
When Torres was taken to the hospital, officers said she admitted to them that she had been drinking alcoholic beverages, the court document stated.
She allegedly told the paramedics that she drank an unknown number of “shots.”
The personnel also stated they could smell the odor of alcohol emanating from her breath.
Another officer who responded to the scene saw a “liquor shooter” on the passenger side of Torre’s vehicle.
Torres told officers she thought she was on Loop 375 and on her way home from visiting her sister rather than on I-10 West, the document stated.
When officers asked her if she had been drinking, she said yes, according to the affidavit.
She told them she had gone to Spec’s, where she bought small “shots” and drank two or three on her own.
When asked if she felt capable of driving in the state she was in prior to the crash, she said, “Obviously not.”
Torres agreed to take a sobriety test, according to the document.
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