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A Pharr man was sentenced to seven years in prison for a 2021 crash that resulted in the death of a man.
Court records indicate that Christian Antonio Salazar, 32, pleaded guilty to intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle, a second-degree felony. State District Judge Bobby Flores sentenced him to seven years in prison on Monday.
He was also charged with intoxication assault with a vehicle causing serious bodily injury, a third-degree felony, and driving while intoxicated third or more, a third-degree felony. Court records show that those charges were dismissed.
Salazar was accused of causing a deadly early morning crash on Aug. 19, 2021 that killed his friend, Hugo Carlos Gonzalez.
An arrest affidavit showed that a police officer arrived at the scene of the crash at around 2:12 a.m. on the 900 block of East Nolana. There he found a blue Hyundai Elantra with major front-end damage inside the eastbound lane facing westbound and a blue GMC Terrain SUV off the side of the road in a grassy area.
The driver of the GMC Terrain was also injured in the crash, but those injuries weren’t life threatening.
Records indicated that the incident was Salazar’s third alcohol-related arrest in less than five years, including an arrest for driving while intoxicated on Jan. 20, 2017, and another on Feb. 9, 2018.
