Our Coastal Bend accident lawyers point to a recent, tragic DWI wreck that claimed the life of a Port Aransas man. Jonathan Roos, 52, was driving his Jeep down SH 361 just after midnight on Tuesday when John Eric Dominguez, 32, rear-ended the Jeep. The force of the impact sent the Jeep careening from the highway into a ditch, where Mr. Roos was ejected from his Jeep. Mr. Jonathan Roos suffered fatal injuries from the DWI wreck and died at the scene.
John Eric Dominguez, of Corpus Christi, suffered no injuries at all from the DWI wreck. He failed a field sobriety test and a blood draw indicated that alcohol played a role in the fatal wreck. Authorities took John Eric Dominguez into custody and set a $100,000 bond. Records show that John Eric Dominguez had a prior DWI conviction to his record.
Our Coastal Bend accident lawyers remind everyone of a CDC finding sobering to everyone but a drunk driver: the average drunk driver drives drunk at least 80 times before their first DWI arrest. This finding indicates that even first-time DWI offenders are already proven, hardened drunk drivers. A small fine and a short jail term are not going to change their behavior.
John Eric Dominguez, whose first DWI conviction appears to be from 2003, might have driven drunk hundreds of times if the CDC’s finding is any indication. It was only a matter of time until one of his drunk drives claimed a life in a disastrous DWI wreck. The unfortunate Jonathan Roos paid the tragic, fatal price of John Dominguez’s excess and the lax Texas laws that let him out onto our roads to drive drunk again.
Our Coastal Bend accident lawyers have called before for stiffer penalties for drunk driving. Only if we can get drunk drivers off the road and KEEP them off will we improve traffic safety for other users of Texas roadways.