Crime & Safety
Suspected Drunk Driver Charged For Rollover Crash That Injured Woman, 3 Kids
The accident was over the weekend in the Coachella area.
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA – A Thermal man who was allegedly driving drunk when his SUV rolled over several times in Coachella, injuring a woman and three children in the vehicle, was charged with DUI causing injury and child endangerment Wednesday.
Juvenal Gasca-Garcia, 30, was booked on $50,000 bail and pleaded not guilty to two counts of drunk driving and three counts of child endangerment.
The crash happened just before 7 p.m. Saturday, and involved the SUV rolling over "numerous times" on Avenue 50 west of Tyler Street, sheriff's Sgt. Paul Heredia said.
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Four passengers, a woman and three children, were hospitalized.
One of the children was airlifted to a hospital due to "serious, but non-life threatening injuries," Heredia said.
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The woman and two other children were hospitalized with minor injuries, according to the Riverside County Fire Department.
Gasca-Garcia is set to return to court Sept. 1 for a felony settlement conference.
