Police: Driver with extremely high BAC crashes
Oregon State Police released this photo of a Dodge Durango that wrecked off Highway 97 early Sunday. By KATU.com Web StaffNEAR REDMOND, Ore. - A man whose sport utility vehicle went airborne after his vehicle drove off a central Oregon highway early Sunday was found to have a blood-alcohol level nearly four times the legal limit, police said. According to Oregon State Police, 24-year-old Guadalupe Enriquez of Redmond was heading north on Highway 97 in a 1998 Dodge Durango about 1 a.m. when his vehicle drove off the shoulder after he passed another driver. The SUV then continued off road about 300 feet before striking the edge of a driveway, where it launched in the air over the driveway and eventually came to rest. Enriquez received non-life-threatening injuries. He was flown by helicopter to St. Charles Hospital in Bend. His condition was not immediately known. State police cited the man for DUII, recklessly endangering another person and driving while suspended. The highway was briefly closed to allow the helicopter to land, police said. |
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