Spring bar to pay 3 million for serving drunk driver who killed 3 in wreck
Families of two people killed in a 2012 triple-fatal wrong-way crash received a $3 million settlement with Papa's Ice House in Spring Thursday.
Stephen Kyle Isbell, 47, of The Woodlands, Anis Atkins, 25, of Houston, and Dominique Hobbs, 27, of Grand Prairie, died when Ed Blackwell, 47, crashed into a car while driving north in the southbound lanes of Interstate 45 in July 2012 following a night of heavy drinking at Papa's Ice House in the 300 block of Pruitt Road in Spring, court records show.
Court documents state Blackwell and Stephen Isbell were at Papa's Ice House for close to six hours late on June 30, 2012, and into the early morning hours of July 1, 2012. The lawsuit alleged employees served the two "large quantities" of alcohol when they were "obviously" drunk already.
Department of Public Safety troopers initially told The Courier that Blackwell got onto the Interstate 45 southbound lanes near Woodlands Parkway before making a sharp U-turn on the highway and driving north in the southbound lanes. That's when he crashed into a car occupied by Hobbs and Atkins, killing them and Isbell on impact.
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