Tamara Sloan has to report to the Erie County Correctional Facility at 7 p.m. Friday to begin the two months of weekends in jail imposed by a judge today for a drunk-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 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. Proseuctors 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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