 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. 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. Mary Lane dragged her husband down the road, causing him to break both legs and injure his head, police said. 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.