Pulp Fiction Screenwriter Busted in Crash

Avary arrested for DUI in collision that killed guest, injured wife
By Lucas Laursen,  Newser Staff
Posted Jan 14, 2008 1:17 PM CST
Pulp Fiction Screenwriter Busted in Crash
Roger Avary, co-screenwriter of "Pulp Fiction," was booked on January 13, 2008 for a DUI crash that killed one passenger and threw his wife from the vehicle.   (Getty Images)

Pulp Fiction screenwriter Roger Avary was arrested last night on charges of manslaughter and driving under the influence after he crashed his car in Ventura County, Calif., killing a passenger and injuring Avary's wife. Avary is free on $50,000 bail and his wife is recovering in the hospital. She was thrown from the car in the single-car collision.

The dead passenger was a 34-year-old resident of Italy, apparently a guest of the couple, who live in Ojai, west of Los Angeles. Avary is best-known for his work with Quentin Tarantino on the Pulp Fiction screenplay, for which they won an Academy Award. He also collaborated on a 2007 film based on the epic Beowulf. (More Roger Avary stories.)

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