Drunk driving crash kills two, driver pleads guilty
A fiery crash in May of 2015 left two teens dead and one severely burned.
The driver , Adrian Dominguez, 19, pleaded guilty Friday morning on two counts of intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle and one count of intoxication assault with vehicle.
Dominguez was driving with three other teens when he lost control and his car hit a guardrail, jumped a drainage canal, rolled over and then caught fire.
Eighteen-year-old Eric Dominguez and 17-year-old Jacob Salazar died at the scene. Adrian Dominguez and Michael Duran survived.
Evan Folan reports.
Original story:
Two El Paso teens were killed when their vehicle crashed and caught fire.
The crash happened at about 9:44 p.m. Sunday, May 10 in the 600 block of South Zaragoza.
Police say that a 2003 BMW was traveling southbound on Zaragoza when the driver lost control of the vehicle, striking a guard rail and launching the vehicle over a drainage canal and rolled over.
The BMW then caught fire.
Two of the occupants, the driver and one passenger, were able to get out of the vehicle but two other passsengers – an 18-year-old male and 17-year-old male were unable to get out and died from the fire.
The passengers killed in the crash have been tentatively identified by investigator but their identities are being withheld pending confirmation and to ensure proper notifications have been made to their families.
The driver sustained non-life-threatening injuries and is recovering at a local hospital. The surviving passenger sustained significant burns throughout his body and has been flown to Lubbock for treatment.
