UNNAMED GIRL - 3 yo / Convicted: Father, Oscar Flores - Dallas, TX

UPDATE: Dallas man gets five years for drunken-driving crash that disfugured his toddler

By Matt Peterson
5:27 pm on October 16, 2013

Staff writer Lucy Sosa reports:

A Dallas man was dealt a five-year sentence Wednesday in a crash that disfigured his toddler last summer and also injured him and his teenage son, both of whom were drunk.

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Oscar Flores, 47, pleaded guilty to intoxication assault in the July 12 crash at a shopping center on Garland Road near Jupiter Avenue, according to officials with the district attorney’s office.

“It sounded like something out of a war movie,” said Zak Zablotsky, a store employee who called 911. “It was one of the worst automobile accidents I ever witnessed.”

Flores was eligible for probation in the case, but a jury gave him time behind bars for the third-degree felony.


Police believe Flores was taking a short cut behind the shopping center at high speed about 8:30 that night when he struck the wall of the building, totaling his pickup and trapping the family inside.

The 3-year-old girl was seated in the front seat of her father’s pickup, restrained by a seat belt rather than the child safety seat investigators found in the back seat, according to Ricardo Rodriguez, a Dallas police accident investigator.

Rodriguez testified that the girl was most likely struck by the truck’s radio, which came loose in the crash. She was taken to Children’s Medical Center with a 4-inch laceration across her forehead that cut into her skull.

Flores and his 16-year-old stepson were taken to Baylor University Medical Center for minor injuries. Police say both had been drinking vodka and were on their way to buy alcohol mixers at the time of the accident.

Questioned at the hospital, Flores said he had “a lot” to drink before the crash, and his blood-alcohol level tested at 0.266, over three times the legal limit, authorities said.

Police Officer Justin Shaffer conducted Flores’ sobriety test at the hospital and told the jury Wednesday that the scar on the toddlers forehead won’t fade away anytime soon.

“Every day she is going to have to look in a mirror and remember this crash,” he said.

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