Driver Charged With DUII After Car Plunges Down Ravine

A driver was taken to hospital and cited for impaired driving after a vehicle went off of westbound Interstate 84 and went down a ravine.  The Hood River Police Department says officers on Saturday went to I-84 near milepost 63.  They found the vehicle had traveled about 530 feet off the interstate and crashed down the ravine.  The HRPD said the vehicle ended up on its top at the bottom of the ravine, going down about 150 feet.  It took about an hour for the Hood River Police, Hood River Fire Department paramedics, Hood River area fire personnel, the Oregon State Police, and the Crag Rats to successfully rescue the entrapped individual, while Forest Service personnel cleared out a path to get the driver out safely.  The HRPD says it was determined the driver was believed to be impaired, and while in the Providence Hood River Hospital emergency room was criminally cited for DUII-Alcohol and Reckless Driving.

 

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