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Carly Kay Abshire
After a 22-year-old Modelos Sports Bar employee drove her Jeep drunk and crashed, with her coworker dying in the flaming heap, a Jefferson County grand jury indicted a Nederland woman for intoxication manslaughter Nov. 2.
According to a probable cause affidavit penned by BPD’s Detective Troy Wagner, Carly Kay Abshire was driving drunk in her 2005 Jeep Wrangler Oct. 14, when she crashed in the 6100 block of Highway 347 and the Cardinal Drive split. The crash killed passenger Madison Hope Thibodeau.
“Abshire and Thibodeau both work at Modelos Sports Bar and had both just got off their shift and were heading to Abshire’s residence in Nederland,” the affidavit reads. “Abshire lost control of her Jeep, left the roadway and flipped several times. The Jeep landed upside down and caught fire.”
Authorities say Abshire was able to crawl away from the burning wreckage, but Thibodeau could not. She died at the scene.
Officers spoke to Abshire at the hospital, and she admitted to “having a few drinks” before she left work the night of her crash. She agreed to provide a blood sample, which was tested and returned as a 0.097 BAC, leaving Wagner to write, “In the officer’s opinion, Abshire lost normal use of her mental and physical faculties by reason of the introduction of alcohol.”
As of press time, Abshire’s name did not appear on the Jefferson County inmate roster. To read the full probable cause affidavit, find this story online at theexaminer.com.