---
title: "Woman Named ‘Tequila’ Suspect in DUI Crash Involving 3 Cars"
description: "Right outside of the Children's Museum. Classy."
date: "2017-11-11"
modified: "2017-11-13"
authors:
  - name: "James Gilboy"
    job_title: "Contributing Writer"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/james-gilboy"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/article/15966/woman-named-tequila-suspect-in-dui-crash-involving-3-cars"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Alcohol"
  - "Car Crash"
  - "crashes"
  - "dui"
  - "Indiana"
---

# Woman Named ‘Tequila’ Suspect in DUI Crash Involving 3 Cars

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Indianapolis—At approximately 1:30 a.m. on Nov. 5, a 2006 Dodger Charger, driven by one Alisha Tequila Jefferson, collided with three vehicles outside the city's Children's Museum, according to [*ABC 15*](<https://www.abc15.com/news/national/woman-named-tequila-crashed-into-three-cars-while-owi-police-say>). Police responding to the scene found Jefferson laying low in some bushes nearby, and after her arrest, she was charged with driving on a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, and operating a vehicle while intoxicated, or OWI. The OWI alone carries a minimum of a [90-day license suspension](<https://statelaws.findlaw.com/indiana-law/what-are-the-indiana-owi-laws.html>) on the first offense in Indiana, with a maximum of two years, and up to a decade-long revocation for third-time offenders. Whether Miss Tequila is a repeat offender is not known, but given her already-suspended status, it is not out of the question.

Driving on a suspended license in Indiana is a Class A misdemeanor, and its penalty includes a license suspension between 90 days and two years, as well as [up to a year in jail](<https://www.bbgibson.com/Practice-Areas/Criminal-Defense/Driving-While-Suspended>). Leaving the scene of an accident can, in some circumstances, be [considered a felony](<https://iga.in.gov/static-documents/8/7/e/1/87e16cb1/TITLE9_AR26_ch1.pdf>) under regional law.

While this stands as one of the more amusing and strange accidents in recent memory, it is beaten out by a [recent incident](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/15873/car-full-of-naked-people-arrested-by-canadian-mounties-after-very-bizarre-crash>) in Canada. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (Mounties) arrested five nude, intoxicated occupants of a vehicle for having caused what appears to be a deliberate accident with an oncoming vehicle on a snowy road in Alberta, transporting some to the hospital with "undisclosed injuries."

There is also the [fighting Oregon couple who wrecked a 1973 Chevrolet Camaro](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/15545/oregon-couple-crashes-into-each-other-destroying-1973-chevy-camaro-in-the-process>), and the Minnesota sheriff's deputy that [hit a deer at 114 mph](<https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/15553/watch-this-sheriffs-deputy-hit-a-deer-at-114-mph-while-responding-to-a-call>), but neither of these quite compare to the spectacular irony of being charged with living up to your name. Here at *The Drive*, we recommend never driving while intoxicated, doubly so if you are named after the drink that presumably helped conceive you.

## Author
James is a former staff writer for The Drive. He has changed the conversation around electrification, debunked misinformation online, and become a prominent hunter of what he calls "automotive cryptids."

### Author social links  
[Instagram](<https://instagram.com/jamesgilboy>)