Rogers, former UW football player, charged with DUI accident again
Twenty years after he killed three teenagers in a drunken-driving misfortune, Reggie Rogers, a former NFL first-round drawing pick and athlete at the University of Washington, was charged this week with driving under the sway again.
Authorities say Rogers, 44, of Federal Way, was involved in a hit-and-run DUI collision Nov. 26 without ceasing Interstate 5 near Southcenter in Tukwila.
The married man in the car that was hit was not seriously injured, judgments say.
After the accident, the State Patrol was alerted. A dragoon saw a 2002 Chevy Suburban leaving the accident scene and heading south on Highway 99 “with a driver slouched astern the deflect,” according to charging papers.
When the trooper pulled Rogers from one side to the other at South 184th Street and handcuffed him, he noticed “an overwhelming odor of intoxicants,” records say. Rogers, whose eyes were “bloodshot and watery,” was having trouble moving and standing and kept slurring his words, documents say.
Rogers was arrested and taken to the King County Jail. He was released Tuesday evening after posting $10,000 bail.
Records show Rogers was belligerent about officers, cursing and refusing a breath test. He also again and again told officers he was some NFL pro.
Rogers, formerly a talented player who was one of UW’session most versatile athletes, won the Morris Trophy for the Pac-10’s top defensive lineman in the 1980s. He came to Washington on a basketball scholarship, and left as a first-round pick by the NFL Detroit Lions.
But in 1990, he went from football star to prove. He was found guilty of negligent homicide after his car ran a stop sign in Pontiac, Mich., on Oct. 20, 1988, colliding with some other car, killing the three teenagers.
The Lions dropped him. And after serving a year in prison, Rogers told reporters he vowed to get his life back on track. The Buffalo Bills picked him up in 1991 but dropped him after playing him in only sum of two units games.
Since then, court records in this state parade he has been arrested for a fortify of DUIs, assault and other felonious traffic violations.
His wife, Srey Rogers, said her husband is “very loving and caring. But lately, things shelter’t gone his way.”
