Number 13

From the Caller Times last June:

A local judge's car hit a transportation department worker crouching near his truck about to fix a sign Thursday afternoon, sending the worker to the hospital in critical condition, police said...A Texas Department of Transportation heavy-duty pickup with a cherry-picker lift was parked near a ramp connecting Padre Island Drive to southbound Interstate 37 when J. Manuel Bañales, 105th District Court judge and presiding judge of the Fifth Judicial Administrative District, entered the ramp. His gold Cadillac Deville slid off the pavement and struck the truck parked a few feet away on the grass.

And in today's news:

It was an accident. That's what police officers said during a Thursday hearing: They found nothing criminal in the car wreck in which 105th District Judge J. Manuel Bañales critically injured a highway department worker.

Really? It was an accident. You mean the judge wasn't gunning for the TXDOT worker? Of course it was an accident, but he still sent the worker to the hospital "injured head to toe." And even though the judge was initially cited with a class C misdemeanor traffic offense, in court "Capt. Mike McKinney, one of two officers who testified, said there was no evidence that Bañales should face criminal charges."