WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Waco woman who was driving with four times the legal limit of alcohol in her system and crashed into two cars she perceived were cutting her off in the school pick-up line in 2023 was placed on misdemeanor probation Tuesday.

Whitney Ashton Hayes, 38, was set to stand trial this week in McLennan County Court-at-Law No. 2 when she agreed to accept a plea offer from the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office.

Hayes’ trial, which started Monday, was delayed during jury selection after a gas leak in the alley behind the courthouse caused county buildings to be evacuated for the day around noon.

During the break, prosecutors Katie Clausen and Mariana Jordan and Hayes’ attorney, Craig Greening, of College Station, worked out a plea deal on the Class A misdemeanor DWI

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