A Dominican Republic official said on Wednesday that St. Louis Cardinals rookie outfielder Oscar Taveras was drunk at the time of his fatal car crash in October.
Tessie Sanchez, a spokeswoman for the Dominican attorney general’s office, told the Associated Press that toxicology reports showed Taveras had a blood-alcohol level five times the country’s legal limit when he lost control of his car Oct. 26 on a highway in the tourist region of Puerto Plata.
She says the 22-year-old Taveras was “legally intoxicated when he crashed.”
Source: WSJSports