DUI driver was three times over legal limit when he hit and killed motorcyclist in Fullerton, prosecutors say

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Francisco Garcia-Vargas, 44, was driving over 100 miles per hour and was nearly three times over the legal blood alcohol level limit when he fatally struck Alexander Marce, 28, on Wednesday evening in Fullerton.

A Fullerton man has been charged with fatally hitting a motorcyclist while he was nearly three times the legal limit over the blood alcohol level, according to prosecutors with the Orange County District Attorney's Office. The crash happened on Wednesday at around 9:45 p.m., when the driver sped through the intersection of Orangethorpe Avenue and Gilbert Street at more than 100 miles per hour, prosecutors said.

After hitting Marce, the driver continued to travel for several hundred yards with the motorcycle stuck underneath his BMW. Marce was declared dead at the scene. Police say that witnesses pulled the driver from his car after he finally came to a stop and held him until they could arrive at the scene and arrest him.

 

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