Follow Up: He has fled away
 Source: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7107548.html

Driver in wreck that killed 3 flees

HPD plans to seek extradition of Nepal native

A Spring man accused
of intoxication manslaughter in the deaths of three teens last week has
fled the country, authorities said Tuesday.

Sajan Timalshina,
25, is believed to have fled to Qatar last Friday, the same day his car
collided with a sport utility vehicle in northeast Houston in the early
morning hours, killing three girls, according to Houston Police
Department spokesman Victor Senties.

"It is believed that
he's trying to get back to his home country of Nepal," Senties said.

The spokesman said
HPD investigators will be contacting the U.S. Marshals Service to make
arrangements for his arrest there and extradition to the United States.

Donna
Hawkins, a spokeswoman for the Harris County District Attorney's office,
said Timalshina had been detained after the accident, but was not
arrested. She said he had not been charged because further investigation
was needed and the DA's office had not been made aware that Timalshina
was a potential flight risk.

Timalshina
was charged with three counts of intoxication manslaughter on Monday.

He could
face 60 years in prison if convicted of all three second-degree
felonies.

According to
investigators, Timalshina was northbound in a Toyota Camry about 1:30
a.m. July 9 in the 6100 block of the North Sam Houston Parkway service
road east when he ran a red light at the Eastex Freeway. Police said
Timalshina's car collided with a Ford Expedition moving through the
intersection on a green light.

RaShaunda Raleigh,
17, and Avianca Cortez, 13, were thrown from the Expedition and died at
the scene. A third girl, Detrihanna Davis, 13, was taken to Ben Taub
General Hospital, where she later died.

The girls, along
with two other friends and one girl's mother, were being driven home by
Raleigh's father from a "teen night" at a club on FM 1960.

According to court
records, Timalshina failed field sobriety tests at the scene. Police
took a blood sample from him at Ben Taub Hospital about three and a half
hours after the fatal crash. Though his blood-alcohol concentration was
determined to be .075 at the time of the test, analysts said it would
have been .16 at the time of the crash. The legal limit of intoxication
while operating a motor vehicle is set at .08.

Investigators said
Timal­shina told police he had worked 16 hours that day and became
confused about which traffic signal was his. He later told investigators
he had drunk about only a quarter of a 12-ounce beer earlier in the
evening.