Drunk Arizona teacher killed grandmother in crash: charges
Erica Flynn, 30, had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit when the rookie elementary school teacher blew through a red light and slammed into 66-year-old Kathleen Searcy's car, authorities say.
BY DOYLE MURPHY
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Saturday, January 3, 2015, 1:42 PM
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A tanked teacher committed murder when she ignored a red light and slammed into another car, killing a 66-year-old grandmother, Arizona prosecutors said.
Erica Flynn’s was going 75 mph, and she had triple the legal limit of booze in her system at the time of the deadly crash, authorities said.
“This was a completely avoidable traffic incident that happened,” Chandler police Detective Seth Tyler told Fox 10 Phoenix. “And it happened because one individual decided to consume an exorbitant amount of alcohol and made the selfish decision to get in her car and drive.”
Flynn, a 30-year-old elementary school teacher, blew past the stop light about 10:30 p.m. on Dec. 27 and slammed into Kathleen Searcy as the older woman was turning left with a green light, authorities said.
MCSOArizona elementary school teacher Erica Kristine Flynn, 30, had a blood-alcohol level three times the legal limit when she crashed into another car, killing a 66-year-old grandmother.
“Very, very violent collision,”Tyler told Fox 10.
A test at the hospital revealed the young teacher’s blood-alcohol level was .283, authorities said.
Flynn, nursing two black eyes and a web of cuts, rolled into court on Friday in a wheelchair. She reportedly wasn’t wearing her seatbelt during the Dec. 27 crash and was thrown face first into the windshield. She wore a sling on her right arm in court.
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The judge agreed to release Flynn without bail after she agreed not to drive and avoid alcohol.
"I don't even want it in your house," the judge said, according to CBS 5. "If you have any alcohol, you need get rid of it."
Flynn was a rookie third-grade teacher at Frye Elementary School, and has told the school she won’t be back for second semester, the station reported.
