{"id":454935,"date":"2026-10-03T04:10:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454935\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T04:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:10:20","slug":"smu-crash-trial-hears-driver-had-bac-nearly-four-times-legal-limit-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/454935\/","title":{"rendered":"SMU crash trial hears driver had BAC nearly four times legal limit \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Dallas woman charged with killing a Southern Methodist University student in a crash on a Central Expressway feeder road had nearly four times the legal limit of alcohol in her blood after the crash, according to a toxicology expert.<\/p>\n

Testing on Lynlee Pollis hours after the crash showed she had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.294%, toxicology chemist Brittany Welch testified Thursday at Pollis’ trial in Dallas County state district court. The legal limit for driving in Texas is 0.08%.<\/p>\n

Pollis is charged with intoxication manslaughter and intoxication assault in the death of 19-year-old SMU student Honor Wallace. Wallace\u2019s friend, who was in the passenger seat, was seriously injured in the September 2023 crash. Intoxication manslaughter carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, and intoxication assault carries up to 10 years.<\/p>\n

Pollis likely would have consumed six to 11 standard-sized alcoholic beverages \u2014 or three to five larger drinks or doubles \u2014 to reach a blood alcohol level that high, Welch said. <\/p>\n

Click here to read more on this report from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n

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(L-R) Lynlee Pollis, 27, is charged with intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle, and intoxication assault with a vehicle in the death of 19-year-old Honor Elizabeth Wallace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Dallas woman charged with killing a Southern Methodist University student in a crash on a Central Expressway…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":454936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,8709],"class_list":["post-454935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallasnews-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/454936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}