Police say a man charged with killing a motorcyclist when he drove head-on into the bike on Hixson Pike was cited for DUI just four months before and was drunk and driving on a suspended license when the latest accident occurred.
Demario Goodwin, 26, who is charged with vehicular homicide and driving under the influence in the Sept. 25 crash, was bound over to the grand jury Tuesday, and General Sessions Court Judge Clarence Shattuck set his bond at $100,000.
“He shouldn’t have been driving at all,” Shattuck said during a hearing. “This is a horrible set of circumstances.”
Goodwin’s family came from Memphis to watch the hearing Tuesday, and family of the 51-year-old victim, Perry Maddox of Chattanooga, were also present.
Goodwin’s blood-alcohol level tested at 0.23 after the accident, police testified, nearly three times Tennessee’s legal limit of 0.08.