Miguel Espinoza, 45, was charged with four counts of intoxication manslaughter in the crash about 11:30 p.m. Saturday in Galveston, about 50 miles southeast of Houston, police said.
Espinoza was being held in the Galveston County Jail Sunday on $400,000 bond, police said. Jail records do not list an attorney for him.
Investigators believe that after the SUV failed to stop, it struck the golf cart carrying six people and a pickup truck, police said. Police. Derek Gaspard said the golf cart and pickup were traveling in opposite directions through the intersection on a road that did not have a stop sign.
Police said the adult driver of the golf cart was pronounced dead at the scene, while a woman and two juveniles in the golf cart were taken to a hospital, where they died. The other two passengers — an adult and a juvenile — were hospitalized Sunday in critical condition, police said.
Espinoza, who lives in Galveston, and his passenger suffered minor injuries, police said. They were taken to hospital and later released.
Gaspard said the pickup’s occupants were not injured. The names and ages of the dead were not immediately available.
