Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Alcohol in the news; 19-year-old ticketed for DUI after weekend crash in Urbana

from the News-Gazette

19-year-old ticketed for DUI after weekend crash in Urbana

URBANA – A 19-year-old Urbana man was cited for driving under the influence of alcohol after his vehicle flipped over and crashed in Urbana early Saturday morning.

According to an Urbana police report, Adrian D. Foster, 19, who listed an address in the 800 block of Scovill Street, Urbana, was driving a 2001 Chrysler near the intersection with Combes Street when the vehicle hit a curb, flipped over and crashed.

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According to the police report, Foster admitted to his fiancee to drinking eight shots of vodka 30 minutes before driving.
wait, what?

8 shots of vodka in a half hour?

According to the police report, Foster had a blood-alcohol level of 0.183. In Illinois, a motorist is presumed to be intoxicated with a blood-alcohol content of 0.08 or above.
yowza

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