Man charged with intoxicated manslaughter after woman dies
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by Adam Shear
TEMPLE - Temple Police have a man in custody for intoxication manslaughter after they say he killed a woman in a head-on collision Saturday night.
According to police, emergency responders were called out to a major car accident at 8:13 p.m. near the intersection of Avenue M and 51st St..
When first responders got to the scene they found a blue SUV, which was traveling westbound, crossed into the eastbound lanes, and hit a tan SUV head-on.
The woman driving the tan SUV, 35-year-old Shelly Easter, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Ramon Rivera, a 21-year-old from Nixon, TX, was driving the blue SUV and had to be taken to Scott & White Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
After officers with the Temple Police Department Traffic Unity Accident Reconstruction Team reviewed the accident they took Rivera into custody. When he is released from the hospital he will be taken to Bell Co. Jail on charges of intoxicated manslaughter.
Police believe Rivera was driving at a high rate of speed prior to the accident. Officers had to shut down Avenue M from 49th St. to 53rd St. until 1:30 AM while they gathered evidence.
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