Police in the Dominican initially reported that they didn’t suspect alcohol as a contributing factor in the accident, citing only the speed and the road conditions. Major League Baseball assigned an investigator to collect and uncover additional details of the accident. The Cardinals at one point said they were awaiting the results of that investigation but the early information did not mention alcohol as a factor.

The toxicology report puts Taveras’ blood-alcohol content at more than five times the legal limit of 0.05 percent in the Dominican, according to the World Health Organization. The limit in the United States is 0.08 percent.

Sanchez told AP that Taveras was “legally intoxicated when he crashed.”

Taveras’ is the third death of an active player for the Cardinals in the past 12 years, the second to have involved driving while intoxicated. In 2007, Josh Hancock was killed when he struck a parked truck along Highway 40, not too far from Busch Stadium. Authorities reported that Hancock’s blood-alcohol level was 0.157 percent, almost twice the legal limit, at the time of his death.