A 27-year-old woman was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 at a bail hearing Wednesday after being accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that fatally injured her friend, officials said.
Shortly after 8 a.m. Sept. 16, Adrienne Garcia, was driving her friend Vivian Molina, 18, home and was southbound on Kedzie Avenue near 47th Street. When she drove through an intersection, she tried to pass a semi-truck also heading south, prosecutors said.
But the right roadway narrowed and she hit the trailer of the truck, spun out of control and crashed into a light pole, prosecutors said.
Several witnesses ran to the scene when they saw liquid and smoke, and helped remove Garcia and Molina from the vehicle.
Molina, who lived in the 5200 block of South Kedzie, blocks from the crash, was taken in critical condition to Mount Sinai Hospital where she was pronounced dead two days later, prosecutors said.
Garcia, also taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, was treated for several injuries including a fractured leg and ribs. Blood was taken and her alcohol content was .266, more than three times the legal limit. Her blood also tested positive for cocaine, prosecutors said.
At the hospital, prosecutors said Garcia admitted to driving her friend home. Garcia, of Carpentersville, was charged with aggravated DUI causing death.
