EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 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.<\/p>\n
25-year-old Britney Torres was arrested and booked into the El Paso County Jail on a $150,000 bond.<\/p>\n
The man who died in the crash was identified as 25-year-old Jesus Chico Jr.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Torres suffered minor injuries.<\/p>\n
According to the arrest affidavit, Torres was driving within the northbound lanes of North Desert and entered I-10 West while traveling eastbound. <\/p>\n
When Torres was taken to the hospital, officers said she admitted to them that she had been drinking alcoholic beverages, the court document stated.<\/p>\n
She allegedly told the paramedics that she drank an unknown number of “shots.”<\/p>\n
The personnel also stated they could smell the odor of alcohol emanating from her breath. <\/p>\n
Another officer who responded to the scene saw a “liquor shooter” on the passenger side of Torre’s vehicle. <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
When officers asked her if she had been drinking, she said yes, according to the affidavit. <\/p>\n
She told them she had gone to Spec’s, where she bought small “shots” and drank two or three on her own.<\/p>\n
When asked if she felt capable of driving in the state she was in prior to the crash, she said, “Obviously not.” <\/p>\n
Torres agreed to take a sobriety test, according to the document. <\/p>\n
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