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Estefanía Vianey Franco is accused of a drunk driving homicide

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  • Estefanía Vianey Franco was charged with homicide due to intoxication while drunk driving.
  • Franco lost control of her car two blocks away from her home and crashed into a tree in Houston, Texas.
  • Hugo Sáenz, Franco’s friend, died from the impact and the police accused the girl of his death.

Estefanía Vianey Franco was charged with one count of homicide by intoxication after she caused an accident while drunk driving. The Vehicular Crimes Division of the Houston Police Department (HPD), in Texas, filed charges against Franco for the death of her passenger Hugo Sáenz.

The young Estefanía Vianey Franco, 24, is already detained in the Harris County jail and will face her criminal process before Judge Nikita V. Harmon of the 176th Criminal District Court in Harris County in the center of Houston and who, as of this writing, has not determined when the girl’s first hearing will be.

Estefanía Vianey Franco is accused of homicide by intoxication

Estefanía Vianey Franco is accused of a drunk driving homicide
Estefanía Vianey Franco, 24, has a problem with the law for the first time in her life as she is accused of homicide by intoxication by causing the death of a man. (Photo: Houston Police Department)

According to Texas State Penal Code the charge of homicide by intoxication like the one faced by the young Estefanía Vianey Franco carries a sentence of 2 to 20 years in prison to whoever is found guilty of that crime after facing his trial.

On Friday, May 21, 2021, according to the case documents consulted by MundoHispánico In Texas, at 11:35 p.m. the emergency number received an alert call from a car that had left the street for some reason around a curve, next to a small lake, until it hit a tree.

The report of the tragic accident

 

Estefanía Vianey Franco is accused of a drunk driving homicide
(Photo: Taken from Twitter)

HPD patrolmen and paramedics from the Houston Fire Department (HFD, for its acronym in English) attended the incident report in front of the house marked with 18200 South Park View Drive, behind Cullen Park and half a block from Barker Cypress Road, in the limits of Houston with the city of Katy in the western metropolitan area.

When the emergency services arrived at the scene, they found that a car had left the road and had hit head-on against a tree on the main median. HFD paramedics could no longer do anything to help the passenger and he was pronounced dead from the force of the impact.

Hugo Sáenz died from the impact against the tree

Estefanía Vianey Franco is accused of a drunk driving homicide
(Photo: Houston Police Department)

The boy who was in the car was identified by the authorities as Hugo Sáenz, 25 years old, although the documents of the case do not detail what was the relationship that the deceased today had with the girl Estefanía Vianey Franco who allegedly caused his death.

The girl also had injuries and was taken to a hospital in west Houston for treatment. At the hospital, the doctors who treated her confirmed that the girl was driving while intoxicated when the accident happened. Based on that, the HPD Homicide Division agents arrested her and charged her.

Estefanía Vianey Franco was two blocks from arriving at her house

Estefanía Vianey Franco is accused of a drunk driving homicide
(Photo: Houston Police Department)

In Harris County records it is detailed that, based on the place of the accident to the official address of Estefanía Vianey Franco, the girl was less than two blocks from reaching her apartment when she lost control of the car due to an alleged combination of alcohol and speeding and in which Hugo Sáenz died.

The same county records reveal that young Estefanía Vianey Franco has never before been in trouble with the law in Houston, Texas, for any reason. The girl does not even have a record of receiving traffic tickets for any reason and her intoxication homicide charge is her first encounter with justice.

Where was Estefanía Vianey Franco drinking?

(Photo: Houston Police Department)

According to a source within the Harris County Prosecutor’s Office, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to her role in the investigation, authorities are now concentrating on where the young Estefanía Vianey Franco drank alcohol to reach such a point. point of intoxication that he couldn’t handle.

In Texas, by law, bar and restaurant staff who serve a customer excessively and allow them to drive away can face criminal charges if the person caused an accident that left a fatality or irreparable harm. Some businesses can even lose their alcohol sales license.

Estefanía Vianey Franco and Crystal Reyes, accused of the same crime

(Photo: Houston Police Department)

Judge Nikita V. Harmon of the 176th Criminal District Court in Harris County granted Estefanía Vianey Franco the right to face her trial at liberty and be released on $ 30,000 bail. However, as of this writing, bail had not been paid and the girl remained in detention.

In less than a month, HPD’s Vehicular Crimes Division filed charges against two Hispanic women for serious intoxication homicide cases. In addition to Estefanía Vianey Franco, the corporation arrested Crystal Reyes, 38, accused of running over the cyclist Héctor Mario Saldarriaga in a drunken stadium with her F-150 truck.

The case of Crystal Reyes

(Photo: Taken from Twitter)

According to the documents of the case, consulted by MundoHispánico In Texas, on the morning of Saturday, May 8, the Colombian immigrant Héctor Mario Saldarriaga, known among his friends and family as ‘El Paisa’, as he did every weekend since cycling was the sport that he was passionate about.

At one point during his Saturday ride, Héctor Mario ‘El Paisa’ Saldarriaga had a mishap on his racing bike and stopped to fix the problem on the side of the road in front of 12400 Galveston Road almost on the corner of Tristar Drive in the southeast of the Greater Houston area. Just when he stopped Reyes ran him over.

The tragedy in the death of Héctor Mario ‘El Paisa’ Saldarriaga

(Photo: Taken from Twitter)

Forensic expert reports on Crystal Reyes’ Ford F-150 truck determined that the front of the vehicle had evidence of the impact on the cyclist Héctor Mario ‘El Paisa’ Saldarriaga. Witness testimonies also identified her as the person who had run over the Colombian immigrant.

Based on all this, Crystal Reyes was arrested and accused of her alleged responsibility in a homicide due to intoxication for the death of the immigrant Héctor Mario ‘El Paisa’ Saldarriaga in addition to reckless driving because she almost collided with the HPD patrol car when she escaped from the crime scene on Galveston Road.

Harris County has the most DWI arrests

(Photo: Taken from Twitter)

According to the records of the Texas Department of Public Safety (TxDPS) Harris County, where Houston is located, is the county that registers the most arrests each week by people who drive while intoxicated (DWI, for its acronym in English).

However, not all cases have fatal consequences as in the two arrests of Estefanía Vianey Franco and Crystal Reyes accused of homicide by intoxication. Just last year 2020 in Harris County, 23 people were arrested, almost two per month, causing a total of 25 deaths while driving under the ravages of alcohol.

«Those tragedies can always be avoided»

(Photo: Taken from Twitter)

Of those 23 detainees charged with intoxication homicide in Harris County, 13 are Hispanic and are being detained following their respective trials. The problem is so great that the TxDPS in conjunction with the HPD and the Harris County Sheriff’s Office (HCSO) created a task force of agents from the three corporations focused on stopping drunk drivers.

Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez explained in a statement sent to MundoHispánico that authorities are “committed to reducing tragedies related to alcohol-impaired drivers. We need to educate the citizens of the county about the risks of driving taken because those tragedies can always be avoided if people decide not to drive. »

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