The Washington Post reports on a suspected drunk driver, Rene Fernandez, who swerved onto oncoming traffic, smashing his Chevy Tahoe into a Honda Accord, critically injuring an elderly couple, Edwin and Ellen Collier. This wasn’t Fernandez’s first mishap. In 1998 he pleaded guilty twice to driving under the influence. In one of the cases, “Fernandez smelled of alcohol, swayed while standing and did so poorly on a one-leg-stand test that police stopped it because they worried that he was going to fall and hurt himself, the report says.” He was sentenced to 60 days in jail though his sentence was suspended. The judge in that case was Edwin Collier.
