5-Time Repeat DUI Offender Pleads Guilty To Vehicular Homicide In Clarksville
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A Morrison man who recently pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and driver intoxication in a 2021 fatal car accident had four previous arrests for charges of driving under the influence.
Brian Forrest Brock was placed in police custody on November 15 to begin his ten-year prison sentence.
The accident occurred shortly before noon on May 16, 2021 on Tiny Town Road in Clarksville.Â
Clarksville Police records state that Brock was headed westbound on Tiny Town Road in a 2003 Honda Accord when he crossed into the eastbound lanes and collided head-on with Rolando Mendez who was driving a 1993 Honda Civic.
The crash caused Brock to then spin out and hit a 2015 Toyota Sienna that was transporting three individuals.
Mendez was pronounced dead at the scene and Brock was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries. No one in the Sienna was seriously hurt.
Brock was originally charged with nine offenses:
1. Reckless Driving
2. Casual Exchange (Marijuana)
3. DUI: First Offense
4. Reckless Endangerment – Vehicle/Felony
5. DUI: Fourth
6. Criminal Negligent Homicide
7. Vehicular Homicide
8. Vehicular Homicide Driver Intoxication
9. Aggravated Vehicular Homicide
After pleading guilty to vehicular homicide-driver intoxication, Brock was given a ten-year sentence and the other charges were dropped.
This is not Brock’s first run-in with the law nor is it his first DUI charge. He has been arrested four other times in Tennessee for DUI offenses. Those arrests occurred in 2009 in Rutherford County, 2011 in Wilson County, 2012 in Cannon County, and again in Wilson County in 2020.
If the 2020 charge was Brock’s fourth DUI conviction, Tennessee law would stipulate that he be charged with a class E felony and a possible sentence of 1 to 6 years in jail. It would also have left Brock with the loss of a driver’s license for eight years. A restricted license could be approved but only with the installation of an Ignition Interlock Device.
REALLY stupid that he was still driving and that it takes disaster to fix system. Prob STILL wont be fixed.
Until the punishment fits the crime these reckless events will continue. He took a life. He owes a life. He should be incarcerated for life.
And those who let him skate the first four times he got caught should share in the pain of punishment. They should each have a financial penalty to pay to the family.
Appalling