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 The way Dallas Police put it, she first passed out, then she ran over her husband, then she tried to flee the scene. Mary Jane Lane, 50, of Balch Springs Texas faces a charge of driving while intoxicated after the accident in Dallas Tuesday. 
 
 
 
 According to a Dallas Police Report Lane was driving with her husband when she stopped at a red light at Northwest Highway and Ferndale in Dallas. The report says Lane passed out. So her husband Randall Lane got out of the SUV walked to his wife's side, opened her door, and tried to unfasten her seat belt. The report goes on that Lane 'came to' and pressed the accelerator, snagging Randall Lane in the door. Lane was dragged until he fell from the SUV, suffering injuries to his head and both legs. 
 
 
 
 Police say Mary Lane fled the scene, in violation of a law that requires a motorist to stop and render aid. She was arrested for intoxication assault, although the charge was later reduced to driving while intoxicated. 
 
 
 
 Mary Lane is in the Dallas County Jail on $20,000 bond. The condition of her husband is not known. ||||| A Balch Springs woman was arrested Tuesday after police say she passed out at a red light near White Rock Lake and then ran over her husband when he got out of the car to try to rouse her. 
 
 Mary Jane Lane, 50, was initially charged with intoxication assault and leaving the scene of an accident after police found her blocking traffic a couple miles away on Northwest Highway in Dallas. 
 
 Dallas police spokeswoman Melinda Gutierrez said Wednesday that the charges had been downgraded to driving while intoxicated. 
 
 Lane was driving west on Northwest Highway with her husband, Randall, in the passenger seat when she came to the intersection with Ferndale Road around 5 p.m. Police said she was under the influence of drugs and passed out at the red light. 
 
 Randall Lane then got out of the car and opened the driver's side door. He reached in to unbuckle his wife's seat belt, when she awakened and pressed the accelerator, police said. 
 
 Mary Lane dragged her husband down the road, causing him to break both legs and injure his head, police said. 
 
 Officers then found Mary Lane blocking traffic on Northwest Highway near the intersection with W. Lawther Drive. Police said her car's engine was off and that she had blood shot eyes, slurred speech and unsteady balance. 
 
 Mary Lane is being held in Dallas County jail on $20,000 bail.
– A Texas woman passed out at a red light, awoke as her husband tried to rouse her, then drove off dragging him along outside the car, KDAF-TV reports. Police suspect 50-year-old Mary Jane Lane (yes, her real name) passed out while under the influence of prescription drugs at the stop light. Her husband exited the SUV from the passenger side, opened her door, and tried to undo her safety belt, presumably so he could take over driving. That’s when she “came to” and hit the gas. The husband got dragged along but eventually fell from the car, receiving head and leg injuries. Lane kept on driving, police report. They arrested her later for something called intoxication assault, notes the Dallas Morning News, but the charge was reduced to driving while intoxicated. Now, she’s in a Dallas jail on a $20,000 bond; her husband’s condition isn’t known.