A South Florida man who was driving at nearly three times the legal blood alcohol content limit on U.S. Hwy 441 in Ocala on Thanksgiving Day in 2021 has been sentenced to life in prison for causing a fatal accident that claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter.
On Wednesday, Logan Levi Alexander Weir, of Boca Raton, was sentenced to life in prison on ten different felony counts related to the accident, which claimed the lives of Heidy Martinez and her mother, Adriana Martinez.
Weir, who turned 35 last month, was found guilty on all ten counts, including two counts of DUI manslaughter and two counts of vehicular homicide.
The sentence comes just a few months shy of the third anniversary of the fatal accident, which took place on November 24, 2021.
On that day, Weir was driving a pickup truck northbound on U.S. Hwy 441 in Ocala, near the roadway’s intersection with NW 95th Street.
Weir was driving at a high rate of speed and failed to slow his vehicle down before he struck the back of a van that was filled with members of the Martinez family.
After the collision, both vehicles rotated clockwise, left the roadway, and entered the grass shoulder on the east.
The impact caused the van’s left rear section to split open before the vehicle overturned onto the grass shoulder.
Four of the family members in the van were ejected, including Heidy, 32, and Adriana, 61, who were both pronounced deceased at the scene.
Weir was originally arrested after the accident. He was incarcerated for three days before he bonded out on November 24, 2021.
According to Adriana’s sister, Lizette Sanchez, the Martinez family was en route to North Carolina for a “long-awaited family trip” when the fatal accident took place.
“The emptiness and grief that resulted from this incident is endless and the pain family, friends and acquaintances have undergone from their loss is not reversible,” reads a statement posted in November 2022 by Sanchez.
Court records show that Weir pled “No Contest” on June 11, 2024 to all ten counts. In addition to the life sentence, Weir is also responsible for tens of thousands of dollars in court fines. He was credited for the three days he previously served.