NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Two children were seriously hurt, one even requiring intubation, after their father’s drunken actions back in November 2023, a release states.
Just after midnight on Nov. 24, 2023, 37-year-old Gary Anthony Sanders II was driving while drunk, measuring a blood alcohol content of between 0.16 and 0.18 — at least twice the legal limit. His two young children were in the back seat while he was heading northbound on Crowell Road.
While intoxicated, Sanders drove up onto the median at a high rate of speed before striking a tree head-on.
The crash resulted in the engine block of the car going into the front seat area. The oldest child had a booster seat improperly secured. The child flew forward from behind the driver’s side and hit the back of the front passenger seat during the crash…