UPDATE (June 6, 2024): Additional details released by authorities identified a passenger riding with Christopher Cabral at the time of the accident. 26-year-old Marisha Stewart reportedly sustained serious injuries due to the accident. Authorities also suggest they recommended the alleged drunk driver be charged for intoxication assault, though further information remains unconfirmed right now.

San Antonio, TX — May 21, 2024, Christopher Cabral was killed due to a car accident along Wurzbach Parkway involving an alleged drunk driver.

Preliminary statements on the accident say that it happened in the area of the Wurzbach Parkway and West Avenue intersection.

According to details from San Antonio Express-News, Christopher Alexander Cabral was going along Wurzbach Parkway. Bexar County officials say that another driver was driving the wrong direction and crashed head-on into Cabral. As a result, Cabral succumbed to fatal injuries.

Commentary by Attorney Michael Grossman

The other driver allegedly admitted to drinking "a good amount of alcohol," and there are pending charges for intoxication manslaughter. To be blunt, I'd be shocked if alcohol hadn't come up here. The vast majority of wrong-way accidents involve extremely drunk drivers. Naturally, that calls for serious consequences. My concern, though, is authorities may only be getting part of the story. In my experience, there's usually an accomplice to deadly wrong-way accidents: a bar. Unfortunately, authorities rarely give that possibility the attention it deserves.

A case I handled not long ago is a perfect example of this. In that case, a family came to us because a drunk driver drove against oncoming traffic and hit their car head-on, seriously injuring their young child. When we asked if police mentioned where the driver had been drinking, we were met with confusion. It never came up.

Once we found that bar, the evidence showed the bar break the law by over-serving the driver while they were obviously intoxicated. The guy could barely walk to and from the bathroom without nearly falling on his face, yet servers continued pouring drink after drink. So long as he was buying, they had no regard for the lives they were putting at risk.

Once the family had seen just how reckless that alcohol provider had been, they were shocked authorities essentially let them off the hook. Authorities easily could have retraced the driver's steps like we did to conduct criminal investigations or even pass the bar off to the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission for potential fines or license suspensions. Instead, they charged the drunk driver—who absolutely deserved to answer for his actions—and moved on.

I wish that example was an exception, but it's a common occurrence across the hundreds of civil cases against negligent alcohol providers I've handled. Authorities rarely prioritize holding anyone accountable besides the drunk drivers alone. When they do go after bars, it's either a rare exception or because my team and I handed them evidence on a silver platter.

Ultimately, my experience is that families who lose a loved one in a drunk driving accident aren't just looking for some bad guy to blame. They want accountability. If there's even a small chance an alcohol provider broke the law and contributed to a man's death, it would be worth looking into it even if it was just to rule it out and give the family some peace of mind.

Well, it's not a small chance here. Countless wrong-way crashes involving alcohol happen because someone was over-served by a local establishment. It would be outright irresponsible not to look into that possibility here. If authorities don't make it clear they're looking into where the alleged drunk driver got their alcohol from, they may be making a huge mistake.