Friday, May 24 2013 12:33 PM EDT2013-05-24 16:33:24 GMT
Smith Street between Morris and Ruffner Avenue is closed after a crash sent the utility pole down. The immediate area is blocked as a result.Emergency crews responded to the crash after a man driving
Driver flees crash scene after crash knocks down utility pole in Charleston
Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:22 AM EDT2013-05-21 14:22:41 GMT
The victim has been identified as 28-year-old David Lemons, of Elkview.
The victim has been identified as 28-year-old David Lemons, of Elkview.
From AP News Now
CLEVELAND (AP) - The Ohio State Highway Patrol attributes a crackdown on drunken driving to the increase in arrests for the offense statewide last year.
The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer (http://bit.ly/13HabNa ) reports that troopers in 2012 arrested 24,520 suspected drunken or impaired drivers. That was a 3 percent increase over 2011.
Also in 2012, crashes that involved drunken drivers numbered 12,168 - a 14-percent increase over the previous year. In those crashes, 431 people were killed and more than 7,000 were injured.
The patrol says drunken or impaired drivers were responsible for more than 40 percent of all fatal accidents in 2012.
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Information from: The Plain Dealer, http://www.cleveland.com
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