December 19, 2011
Two recent vehicle crashes into apartments in Bryan College Station, Texas, drive home the dangers of driving while intoxicated., according to KBTX.
A 53-year-old woman crashed her car into the brick wall of the apartment where she lives off Longmire in College Station.
The resident whose apartment she hit said, “I heard squealing tires…I could tell like, a car had hit something.”
“I couldn’t believe it and then I saw what had happened and I was like, I cannot…this is insane, it’s crazy,” she added.
The driver admitted to police that she had taken a prescribed muscle relaxer and had drunk two glasses of wine before crashing into the building.
In another incident, a 21-year-old man is charged with intoxicated assault after using hallucinogenic mushrooms and crashing his pickup into a unit at the West University Garden Apartments. This accident sent one resident to the hospital.
Dr. Clint Cheng, with St. Joseph Health System, said, “It’s becoming more of a problem because I think people are losing respect for medications and their potential side effects.”
“You’re not going to realize that you are not capable of driving or operating heavy machinery or in some cases, even walking,” added Cheng.
Both suspects have previous DWI charges.
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