An alleged DUI driver stands accused of a drunken 88 MPH crash in Hayward that killed his 20-year-old passenger, seriously injured his own son, and left another passenger comatose. Though oddly, he was released from jail.
Last March 7 at around 10 pm in Hayward, there was three-car rollover crash caused by a suspected DUI driver, who police say was driving 88 miles per hour on Hayward Boulevard, and with a blood alcohol content of .23, about triple the legal limit. The crash killed that driver’s 20-year-old passenger Elizabeth Fuentes, injured the driver’s four-year-old son to the extent that the kid needed 12 staples in his head, and injured his third passenger to the point that she was comatose and suffered from paralysis.
Armando Hernandez Benitez,20,charged by @AlamedaCountyDA w/gross veh. manslaughter while intox. & DUI (.23, nearly 3X legal limit) in 3-car rollover crash in March at Hayward Blvd & Civic that killed passenger Elizabeth Fuentes,20,& hurt 2 others, incl.his 4yo son,per @HaywardPDpic.twitter.com/JJ07KUOcUs
— Henry K. Lee (@henrykleeKTVU) December 11, 2025
Now, a full nine months later, the Alameda County DA has finally gotten around to charging that driver, 20-year-old Armando Hernandez-Benitez, with vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and numerous counts of DUI, according to the Bay Area News Group…