West County Woman Charged With Assault in DWI Crash
Another driver was injured after the woman drove her car into other vehicles stopped at at traffic light on Highway 141.
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A West County driver faces a criminal charge after the woman struck two cars waiting at a stoplight on southbound Highway 141 in Ballwin, injuring another driver. St. Louis County Police said the woman who caused the accident was driving while intoxicated.
Sarah C. Johnson, 42, of the 2400 block of Barrett Heights Drive in West County, was charged Saturday with second-degree assault.
St. Louis County Police said Johnson was southbound on Highway 141 and hit cars stopped at a stoplight near Milldale Drive and Manoro Way at the Ballwin city limits. One of the other drivers fractured a vertebra, police said.
An officer responding to the accident smelled alcohol on Johnson, who told the officer she had two glasses of wine before driving. According to the police report, Johnson had difficult time balancing herself and did poorly on sobriety tests.
Bond has been set at $50,000 for Johnson.
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Jim
8:38 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
Won't people ever learn that drinking and driving don't mix? Where is common sense?
OokOokMonkey
3:23 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
As soon as our courts take it seriously and as soon as gutless lazy prosecutors stop handing out plea bargains like Smarties at Halloween
Mark
9:08 am on Friday, January 4, 2013
And the first thing to go when drinking??? Sound judgment. It's why so many drink and drive.
OokOokMonkey
3:25 am on Sunday, January 13, 2013
WHat SHOULD happen is MANDATORY 10 YRS in prison MINIMUM, full-sentence served required for EACH victim injured by DRUNK DRIVING FILTH like Sarah C. Johnson, 42, followed by 5 years of community service cleaning up guts and blood from emergency rooms and morgues
Libertina
8:46 pm on Wednesday, March 6, 2013
With the amount of other felony crimes clogging up our criminal justice system, these crimes are pled just to get them out of the system. If you can afford a private attorney, it is a slap on the wrist. Very sad indeed!