A Texas man was sentenced to 82 years in prison for a 2022 drunk driving crash in Galveston that killed four family members riding in a golf cart. Miguel Espinoza pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including intoxicated manslaughter and intoxicated assault.
A drunk driver has been given 82 years in jail for the terrible crash in Galveston in 2022 that killed four family members. Earlier this week, Miguel Espinoza admitted to four counts of intoxicated manslaughter and one count of intoxicated attack.
Espinoza ran a stop sign and crashed his SUV into a golf cart carrying six people on August 6, 2022. The crash killed all six people. Felipe Bentancur, 49, Destiny Uvalle, 25, Brailyn Cantu, 14, and Kaisyn Bentancur, 4, were all killed in the crash. A fifth traveler was also hurt very badly.
Documents from court show that Espinoza was going too fast and didn't give way. People who saw him walking away from the accident scene with a woman later confirmed that he was the driver. When the police found Espinoza, they saw that his eyes were bloodshot and that he smelled like alcohol.
Other people were also charged because of the case. A bartender who was accused of giving Espinoza too much alcohol before the accident was later caught and charged.
Espinoza's bond was taken away in 2023 after police in Rosenberg, Texas, stopped him and found that he might have been driving without an Interlock device, which is a court-ordered test that stops drunk driving.
Espinoza was sentenced, which ends a terrible case that hurt a family and shocked everyone in Galveston.
