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32-year-old Chanton Jenkins charged in death of five children when car plunges into water
On April 18, 2009 five young children died after an allegedly drunken 32-year-old Chanton Jenkins crashed his vehicle into a ditch filled with water. The accident occurred in Houston, TX as he was driving with his brother and six young children including Jenkins' three sons ages 4,7, and 11 and three young girls 1,2, and 10 years of age. Jenkins was allegedly driving in an intoxicated state when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed his vehicle into a drainage ditch that was filled with water approximately 10-feet-deep. Jenkins, his brother, and the 10-year-old girl were able to escape the wreckage. Everyone else in the car died. Authorities have charged Jenkins with multiple counts of intoxication manslaughter
Intoxication manslaughter charges have been filed on a Houston man who lost control of his vehicle Saturday, plunging the car into a flooded ditch and killing five children.
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Houston Wrongful Death Attorney Michael Grossman said:
This is an appalling accident. While the obvious charges of intoxication manslaughter seem fitting, it is important to consider that a civil action is also a likely outcome of such an incident. Should the family of any of these victims pursue a wrongful death suit there could be additional, less obvious defendants.
Often when alcohol is part of the equation in an accident such as this, the family will have a dramshop cause of action. Effectively, that means that if a bar or restaurant served Mr. Jenkins to the point of intoxication, that establishment would assume some of the liability for the outcome of this accident. This measure was put into place to provide bars with a negative incentive to dissuade them from serving their patrons a large quantity of alcohol and then releasing them out into the public. Should such a civil case be pursued by the family, any good attorney would start by investigating the source of Mr. Jenkins alcohol.
I wish the best for the families of these children.
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