CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Last month, a Nueces County grand jury indicted a woman accused of killing two people after driving the wrong way on the Harbor Bridge.
The grand jury indicted Roxanne Palacios on two counts of intoxication manslaughter with a vehicle and one count of intoxication assault with a vehicle causing serious bodily injury.
As KRIS 6 News previously reported, Navy Veteran Matthew Banda and San Paricio County dispatcher Betsy Mandujano were killed on November 2, 2022, when a wrong-way driver struck their vehicle.
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Last year, the Corpus Christi Police Department said that it had determined Palacios "was possibly under the influence of an intoxicating substance and was traveling north in the southbound lanes on US HWY 181."
Documents from a civil lawsuit allege Palacios, formerly a Flatiron Dragados employee, attended a company party at Railroad Seafood Station just before the crash.
According to the Nueces County District Clerk's website, Palacios is scheduled to appear in the 148th District Court before Judge David Klein for a pre-trial hearing on Jan. 9.
Palacios' indictment came the day after the one year anniversary of the fatal accident.
