Well back to the OP's original question. I think DUI is the appropriate charge. Some others make a good point that had the guy been sober he might have been able to prevent the accident, but we can't know that. Since we can't know, we have to stick with what we do know. The other car ran a red light and was a fault. This guy was intoxicated, but not at fault, hence the DUI charge is appropriate.

On a side note. Uber is cheap. DUI's are expensive. Ya'll just need to hang on a few more years and we'll have autonomous vehicles.

Here's the problem with that scenario, when intoxicated, your reaction time is slowed way down. If the driver wasn't intoxicated, he may or may not have noticed the other vehicle run the red light. It's a very sad situation to be in where a human life is lost.

They were prolly drunk too.

So even though he was drunk it just so happened someone else caused the accident. Should he just get a DUI or something more?

A military police officer taught my driving school class. He trained us that with good defensive driving habits (4 second bubble, always proceed with caution when approaching intersections, etc), the vast majority of collisions can be avoided

I remember him saying, that the philosophy on his base was that it usually takes two bad decisions by two drivers to get into a collision. If one driver is practicing solid defensive driving tactics, most collisions can be avoided.

BTW - My Wife ran a red light while sober and was t-boned by a sober driver.

People, the intoxicated driver was charged with DWI, not causing the accident. That is what he would be charged with had there not been an accident. And since we have so many experts here to testify that another driver should have been able to avoid the red light runner, tell us how you know that the intersection where the collision occurred has unobstructed visibility in all directions. And how you know how fast the vehicles were moving. And how you know what the road's drag factor (traction) was (assuming that anyone attempted to take evasive action). And how you know what evasive action was taken, and by whom............

Just wondering, since there seems to be so much unpublished, inside information about the event floating around here.