Drunk Driver With 3 Girls Crashes Into Trooper In Miami-Dade

Cesar Peña had a beer bottle in between his legs when the trooper approached the gray Kia minivan and saw him with two 9-month-old twin baby girls, a 13-year-old girl, and Diana Quintero, their mother, according to the FHP trooper's report. The driver of the Kia, who is also known as Cesar Eduardo Peña Romero, "had the odor of an alcoholic beverage emanating from his mouth as he spoke, his eyes were bloodshot, and his speech was slurred," the trooper wrote, according to the report.

The crash was shortly after 10:40 p.m. on Sunday along the eastbound lanes of State Road 836, also known as the Dolphin Expressway, at Northwest 107 Avenue, and the FHP car had stopped because a trooper was investigating a prior crash, records show. A breathalyzer test showed Peña, who was born in Colombia and lives in North Miami, had a breath alcohol concentration of 0.155 grams of alcohol for every 210 liters of breath, according to the FHP report.

The legal limit in Florida is 0.08 grams. "He was unsteady on his feet and had to place his left hand on the hood of my patrol car to steady himself," a trooper wrote, according to the report. Related perspectives: See here