TCU Coach busted for DWI

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TCU coach charged after crash
Football aide accused of drunken driving, failure to render aid

12:41 AM CDT on Monday, September 22, 2003

By KEVIN KRAUSE / The Dallas Morning News

A Texas Christian University assistant football coach has been charged with drunken driving and failing to stop after a three-vehicle crash early Saturday, police said.

Willie Mack Garza, 33, of Fort Worth failed a roadside sobriety test after Forest Hill police pulled him over and he refused to take a breath test, said Sgt. Sharon Sexton of the Forest Hill Police Department. He was released from jail on $3,500 bail, Sgt. Sexton said.

Mr. Garza could not be reached Sunday for comment.

Sgt. Sexton said Mr. Garza was traveling west on Loop 820, near Forest Hill Drive southeast of Fort Worth about 1:20 a.m. "at a high rate of speed" when his SUV hit a retaining wall and crashed into the front left side of a car that he was trying to pass.

The impact pushed the car into an 18-wheeler, which dragged the car several feet before coming to a stop, police said. The unidentified driver of the car was treated and released, and the truck driver was not hurt, Sgt. Sexton said.

Mr. Garza kept driving after the accident and was pulled over in the 4500 block of South Riverside Drive in Fort Worth after a witness followed him and called police, Sgt. Sexton said.

Mr. Garza faces a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated charge and a felony charge of failure to render aid.

The former high school All-America running back was hired by TCU in 2001.

Steve Fink, a TCU athletics department spokesman, said school officials want more information before they act.

[Murphy3]

narrowly avoided another dwayne goodrich incident

[MavsFanatik33]

Hopefully this won't affect TCU's football program.

[madape]

somebody's getting fired soon...