Man accused of drunk driving in Fort Worth head-on crash that killed 31-year-old
A 30-year-old suspect was booked into the Fort Worth City Jail on Wednesday, Dec. 11, in connection with the November death of a 31-year-old man in a head-on car crash, according to jail records.
Michael Blanton faces a charge of intoxicated manslaughter with a vehicle, the jail records state.
Fort Worth police officers saw a pickup truck traveling at a high rate of speed on Randol Mill Road shortly after 9 p.m. on Nov. 7. They discovered that the driver had crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a sedan head on in the 7100 block of Randol Mill Road, police said.
The sedan’s driver, Francisco Javier Gomez, of Fort Worth, was pinned inside his vehicle. Firefighters were able to extricate him, but he died at a local hospital a short time later, officials said.
Gomez’s death was ruled an accident, according to the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office website.
Blanton also received life-threatening injuries in the crash and was taken to a local hospital before his arrest, police said. Traffic Investigation Unit detectives conducted the follow-up investigation of the fatal collision.
