DUI Driver Allegedly Causes Head-On DUI Crash

My News LA reported recently that a man has been arrested for allegedly causing a DUI accident in Fullerton on New Year’s Eve that fortunately didn’t cause any injuries to anyone besides himself. 

According to officials with the Fullerton Police Department, the accident was reported between 10:00 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. Pacific Standard Time near the intersection of Gilbert Street and Hughes Drive. A man about 25 years of age, allegedly driving while intoxicated, ran into another vehicle. No one in the other vehicle was injured, but the suspect was taken to University of California at Irvine Medical Center in Orange for treatment of injuries. He was charged with misdemeanor DUI. 

KTLA Channel 5 LA’s Very Own Local News reported recently that local police are searching for a man who allegedly stole a Dodge Ram pickup truck and drove through a fence and onto a freeway in the wrong direction before leaping from it while it was in motion. This allowed it to strike an oncoming van driven by a woman 55 years of age, who was hospitalized with major injuries according to officials with the California Highway Patrol. 

The passenger of the truck has been caught, but the driver is still at large.

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