Five-Year Prison Sentence for Drunk Driver Who Killed Two in Cox

There is now a sentence for the driver who killed two people after causing an accident while driving drunk in October 2020 in Cox. The Alicante Provincial Court has sentenced him to five years in prison and also imposed a driving ban for seven and a half years.

The incident occurred at 8:30 PM on October 24, 2020, when the convicted was driving a car on National Road 340 through Cox and veered into the opposite lane, colliding head-on with a quadricycle carrying the two deceased victims, as stated in the sentence.

This head-on impact pushed the quadricycle off the road, which then collided front-laterally with another car carrying a family. The driver and passenger of the quadricycle died from the multiple injuries they sustained.

Meanwhile, the occupants of the other car, a man and a woman with their two young daughters, were injured with various thoracic or cranial contusions and whiplash injuries.

The sentence, issued after the parties reached a plea agreement, declares him guilty of two counts of reckless homicide and three counts of reckless injury in conjunction with a traffic safety offence for driving under the influence of alcohol.

The ruling also imposes a seven-and-a-half-year driving ban on the convicted, but does not include compensation for the victims as none of them claimed, having reached an out-of-court settlement with the accused's insurer. The sentence, which was issued and notified to the parties on March 13 during the trial, cannot be appealed.