Santa Rosa mom faces DUI charge in SUV crash with kids
Published: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 12:58 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 at 12:58 p.m.
SANTA ROSA — A Santa Rosa woman is facing drunken driving and child endangerment charges after crashing an SUV that was carrying her three young children.
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A mangled Chevy Tahoe sits off Laughlin Raod near the Charles M. Schulz-Sonoma County Airport on Tuesday, March 1, 2011, after a crash that sent a Santa Rosa woman and her three children to the hospital. The woman was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving.
CRISTA JEREMIASON/ PDTwenty-three-year-old Christian Galvan and two of her children were ejected from the vehicle. The California Highway Patrol says everyone in the SUV managed to survive Tuesday night's crash without any life-threatening injuries.
CHP Officer Jonathan Sloat says Galvan apparently had been drinking and arguing with her husband before speeding off with the kids — ages 2, 4 and 6. The Chevy SUV crashed into a guardrail, rolled over and landed in an embankment near the Sonoma County airport.
Sloat says the 2-year-old boy was strapped into the car seat, but the other three were thrown from the SUV. Galvan's 4-year-old daughter had to be airlifted to the hospital.
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