The woman whose drunk driving crash caused a tow truck driver to be pushed off the High Five and fall to his death in 2021 has finally been sentenced.
38-year-old Denise Alford was convicted of intoxication manslaughter for the August 2021 accident. Today she was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Police records show Alford slammed her Chevy Tahoe into a man who was hooking up a stalled car to his tow truck on one of the high ramps of the LBJ Express near Highway 75, knocking him off the overpass and onto the freeway 30 feet below.
The jury found that Alford was under the influence at the time and convicted her of intoxication manslaughter. She could have gotten 20 years.
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