Woman responsible for fatal DUI crash arrested again for driving drunk

Fourteen years after a crash that killed two elderly sisters, the drunk driver who went to prison for that crime is in trouble again after police say she caused another head-on crash driving drunk through Providence on Friday.

Brandy Graff, 32, was ordered held without bail by a judge at a probation violator’s hearing on Monday.

According to a police report, Providence officers got a call at around 1:00 a.m. Friday morning about a head-on crash on Steeple Street.

When officers got to the scene they said Graff’s car was facing the wrong way down the one-way street. She told police that she only had a few glasses of wine, and it was the other driver who was driving the wrong way. Nobody was hurt.

Police said they saw clear signs of Graff being drunk, as she was slurring her words, stumbling, and eventually blew almost three times the legal limit on her breathalyzer test, according to the report.

On her way to jail, Graff told an officer about her grim past involving getting behind the wheel while drinking and killing two elderly sisters.

In 2005 Graff was driving in Narragansett after a day of drinking at the beach. She veered across the center line and hit another car head-on.

The two sisters in the car were Theadora Mastracchio and Victoria Riccio, who died from the crash.

Graff served just under six years of a ten-year sentence for good behavior.

As for the new charge of DUI, she’ll have another violator hearing next Friday. 

Her lawyer, Susan T. Perkins, declined comment outside of court.