EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — An El Paso magistrate court judge Thursday lowered the bond for an El Paso woman charged with running over a pedestrian while driving drunk.<\/p>\n
As ABC-7 reported, 62 year-old Aurora Morales was charged<\/a> with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle for running over 57 year-old Ana Maria Paniagua after Paniagua offered to drive Morales’s car home. Police say that as Morales was changing seats, the vehicle began to roll backward and struck Paniagua, who later died at the hospital.<\/p>\n In the online hearing, the judge ordered a reduction in the bond for Morales from $250,000 to $100,000 subject to pre-trial conditions that if not met would lead to her being jailed until trial with bond revoked entirely.<\/p>\n Those conditions include:<\/p>\n Reporting weekly in person to a bond officer as instructed;<\/p>\n Installing a “camera ignition interlock device” in any vehicle she drives to ensure she has not had any alcohol; <\/p>\n A ban on possessing or consuming any illegal drugs or alcohol;<\/p>\n Weekly drug and alcohol testing to the bond officer; <\/p>\n No arrests for anything else;<\/p>\n and must have a valid driver’s license and insurance if she it to drive her vehicle or any other.<\/p>\n BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION<\/p>\n KVIA ABC 7 is committed to providing a forum for civil and constructive conversation.<\/p>\n Please keep your comments respectful and relevant. You can review our Community Guidelines by clicking here <\/a><\/p>\n