A Greeley, Colorado, man, who spent time in prison after being convicted for causing an accident in a nearby state that killed a woman and left a man disabled, has been arrested again.

The man, 52, was accused of DUI, menacing and violating his parole in the most recent incident. In 2005, a jury convicted the man of aggravated vehicular homicide and aggravated assault after the June 2004 crash. He served time in prison in a nearby state.

In that 2004 accident, the man was convicted of running a red light and struck the woman's family van, killing the 41-year-old woman. Her husband, a volleyball coach at Colorado State University, was admitted to the hospital with a brain injury and broken jaw. He slipped into a coma but eventually recovered, being left with a permanent disability. The man's mother, also a passenger in the van, was slightly injured.

The accident occurred as the van exited Interstate 80 at South Greeley Highway, just north of the Colorado-Wyoming border. The man's blood alcohol content measured at 0.21, higher than the 0.08 legal limit, according to reports.

As a condition of his sentencing in the earlier case, the driver wrote a letter in 2006 while in prison acknowledging his troubles with alcohol and admitting that his actions destroyed families.

But it's important to remember that the man needs to be tried only on the current arrest, and that information from a previous conviction has no bearing on his current trial, if he faces one. Being convicted for drunk driving can have disastrous consequences, including jail time, fines and license revocation, which can mean the loss of a job.

Source: 9 News, "Greeley man convicted of killing Fort Collins woman while driving drunk arrested again," Jan. 4, 2012