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Mother of two to start DWI weekend jail terms
Updated: July 30, 2010, 7:17 AM
Tamara Sloan has to report to the Erie County Correctional Facility at 7 p. m. today to begin the two months of weekends in jail imposed by a judge Thursday for a drunken-driving crash that injured one of her children.
State Supreme Court Justice M. William Boller told the 35-year-old University Avenue woman she would have faced a state prison term if she hadn’t entered the Buffalo DWI Court treatment program, as he ordered last month. He also fined her $3,040.
Sloan’s 7-year-old daughter suffered a broken ankle when her mother drunkenly veered from the northbound lane of North Bailey Avenue and crashed head-on with a southbound car near the intersection with Sheridan Drive at about 6 p.m. Dec. 31. Sloan’s 2-year-old son also was in the vehicle but was not injured.
Sloan pleaded guilty June 4 to two felony charges of aggravated drunken driving with a child in the vehicle, a violation of the so-called Leandra’s Law. Prosecutors said she had consumed a bottle of bourbon and had a blood alcohol content of 0.22 percent—nearly three times the legal limit—after the crash.
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