A two-vehicle crash in the Indio area resulted in the death of one motorist and the arrest of the other on suspicion of drunken driving, authorities said Friday.
A 27-year-old woman who was driving under the influence when she ran into a California Highway Patrol officer stopped on his motorcycle pleaded guilty Wednesday to DUI causing great bodily injury and other offenses and was immediately sentenced to 36 months felony probation.
A convicted felon who ran over and killed a 71-year- old woman walking on a sidewalk in Murrieta while he was driving drunk pleaded guilty Tuesday to DUI gross vehicular manslaughter and other offenses and was immediately sentenced to 11 years in state prison.
A rollover crash at a Menifee intersection that killed a passenger, severely injured the driver and caused another passenger to be ejected onto the roadway was likely the result of drunken driving, authorities said Monday.
A 43-year-old man who killed a 23-year-old former high school and college football player in a hit-and-run crash in Desert Hot Springs has pleaded guilty to DUI gross vehicular manslaughter and was sentenced to 11 years in state prison.
Super Bowl celebrants planning to consume alcoholic beverages during the big game Sunday should stay off Riverside County roads unless they’re sober, or else they could be arrested in any one of a number of anti-DUI operations planned countywide, sheriff’s officials said Wednesday.
