Tuesday, August 28, 2007
DUI Drive in the Flood
DUI lawyer news flooding the country
BARTLETT, Illinois
A 20-year-old woman who had to be rescued by firefighters from the roof of her car after she tried driving down a road that was blocked because heavy rains had caused it to flood, has been charged with drunken driving.
A Bartlett police officer on patrol in the area of Stearns and Munger roads about 11:45 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24, saw a car head south on Munger Road around a set of “Road Closed” barricades, according to a release Tuesday from police. The road was blocked because a portion of Munger was flooded after the recent heavy rainfall and storms.
The car drove into the flooded roadway and, within minutes, was fully submerged in five feet of water before the officer could catch up to it, the release said.
The driver, Megan R. Wood, escaped the car on her own and sat on top of the roof until Bartlett Fire Protection District firefighters carried her out of the water.
Wood, 20, of West Chicago, was charged with two counts of DUI and cited with disobeying a traffic control device and driving in the wrong lane.
BARTLETT, Illinois
A 20-year-old woman who had to be rescued by firefighters from the roof of her car after she tried driving down a road that was blocked because heavy rains had caused it to flood, has been charged with drunken driving.
A Bartlett police officer on patrol in the area of Stearns and Munger roads about 11:45 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 24, saw a car head south on Munger Road around a set of “Road Closed” barricades, according to a release Tuesday from police. The road was blocked because a portion of Munger was flooded after the recent heavy rainfall and storms.
The car drove into the flooded roadway and, within minutes, was fully submerged in five feet of water before the officer could catch up to it, the release said.
The driver, Megan R. Wood, escaped the car on her own and sat on top of the roof until Bartlett Fire Protection District firefighters carried her out of the water.
Wood, 20, of West Chicago, was charged with two counts of DUI and cited with disobeying a traffic control device and driving in the wrong lane.
# posted by SanDiegoDUI @ 9:48 PM 
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