Indiana
Drunk driver arrested after crashing into INDOT truck
Indiana State Police stated the driving force had a blood alcohol content material of .245%, which is greater than 3 times above the authorized restrict of .08%.
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA, Ind. — A driver with a BAC 3 times the authorized restrict was arrested early Tuesday morning after crashing into an INDOT truck in northwest Indiana.
INDOT crews had been making highway repairs on Interstate 65 in Lake County round 3 a.m. when a driver crashed into the INDOT truck.
Indiana State Police stated only one lane of the freeway was open on the time. Vans with arrow boards blocked the opposite two lanes, and state troopers had been additionally there with the lights flashing on their patrol vehicles.
Aubrey Allee, 28, of Demotte, was driving a Jeep Wrangler at a excessive charge of pace when she slammed her Jeep into one of many vehicles with arrow boards on it after which spun into the middle median guardrail.
ISP stated she narrowly missed a police automotive that had its lights flashing.
A trooper noticed the crash and ran to the Jeep. Allee wasn’t sporting a seatbelt, was unconscious and unresponsive. She finally regained consciousness and was unaware that she had been in a extreme crash, ISP stated.
Allee was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening accidents. The driving force of the INDOT truck was not injured.
Police stated Allee had a blood alcohol content material of .245%, which is greater than 3 times above the authorized restrict of .08%.
When she was cleared from the hospital, police stated Allee was taken to the Lake County Jail.
INDOT stated this was one among two in a single day crashes in northwest Indiana and urged drivers to be cautious in work zones.
