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FRASER., Mich., Aug. 17 (UPI) -- Eugene Wright, of Warren, Mich., was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder and driving while intoxicated in a crash that killed a mother of 20 children.
WDIV-TV in Detroit reported Tuesday Wright was driving his car southbound on Interstate 75 where he was believed to have swerved off the road. He apparently hit a discarded couch on the side of the road and then drove at a high rate of speed into the victim's car, police said.
Eighty-one-year-old Stella Demeniuk was killed instantly when her car overturned. The crash injured Demeniuk's son-in-law, John Grimes, and her daughter, Rita, reported the Macomb Daily.
Police said Wright's blood-alcohol level was .18 -- more than double the legal limit in Michigan of .08.
Stella Demeniuk is survived by 20 children -- 10 sons and 10 daughters - as well as 47 grandchildren and 26 great-grandchildren.
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