DWI Hit Parade!

Johnny Allen Spell in jail charged with DWI fatal and hit and run

From WNCT

HARRELLS, N.C. – A truck driver in Sampson County has been charged with driving while impaired (DWI) and other crimes in relation to the hit-and-run death of a 7-year-old girl.

The North Carolina Highway Patrol said Johnny Allen Spell, 37, of Bud Spell Lane in Roseboro, was heading south on Highway 421 in the Harrells area of Sampson County on Tuesday afternoon when he passed a stopped school bus and hit Alyiah Morgan. Morgan was a 1st-grade student at nearby Union Elementary School. The girl was pronounced dead on the way to Sampson Regional Medical Center in Clinton, Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Jeff Gordon said.

Gordon said the bus’s flashing red lights were on, and its stop sign was out. He said troopers found Spell and his truck about 25 miles away in the parking area of the small trucking company on Hayne Stretch Road where Spell worked.

“He could ….MORE

From WCIV

CONYERS, Ga.  — A truck driver scheduled to be in court on a reckless homicide charge as a result of a crash on I-526 in January was arrested earlier this month for DUI in Georgia.

According to a State Police report, 35-year-old Arnold Williams was stopped on Interstate 20 on April 6 after several people called the Newton County Sheriff’s Office complaining of a tractor trailer swerving in and out of lanes.

When Georgia State Police officer arrived, Newton County deputies had stopped Williams and were asking him questions. The report states he initially told officers his truck was empty, but later said there was 26 tons of stone he was hauling, but could not say where he was taking the materials.

Officers detected a “fruity alcoholic smell” on Williams and asked him if he had been drinking. He said he had not had anything to drink in several days and consented to a Breathalyzer test.

According to the report, Williams registered a .222 on the ….MORE

From Star-Tribune
A 45-year-old Inver Grove Heights man driving a service truck at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport was charged with drunk driving and failing to yield to an airplane.
John Korab, 54, was arrested on Thursday night after failing a sobriety test. A preliminary breath test showed he had a blood-alcohol level of .22 percent, said Melissa Scovronski, spokeswoman for the airport. The legal limit to drive is .08 percent. ….MORE

From Faribalt County Register
It wasn’t hard for a Minnesota trooper to spot: numerous vehicles bunched up in both lanes on Interstate 90 behind a westbound white semi.
Trooper Kyle Froehlich was responding to a complaint of a truck swerving all over the road on July 28.
Court documents say Froehlich saw the truck move from the right lane to the left, almost striking a motorcyclist.
The driver of the semi was identified as 41-year-old Jonathan D. Devers of Paducah, Ky. ….MORE

From Charlotte Observer
DURHAM (July 2, 2011)  State troopers say the driver of a tractor-trailer was under the influence of marijuana and methadone when his vehicle caused a crash on Interstate 40 that killed three people Thursday.
Ronald Eugene Graybeal, 50, is in the Durham County jail after being charged with driving while impaired and three counts of felony death by vehicle.
Graybeal, of 306 Elena Lane in Newport, Tenn., is a convicted rapist and burglar, according to court records…..MORE

From WBIR
A tractor-trailer driver from East Tennesee faces multiple charges after a crash in North Carolina that killed three people.
Ronald Eugene Graybeal, 50, of Newport is charged with felony death by vehicle, two counts of misdemeanor death by vehicle, DWI, possession of marijuana, methadone and drug paraphernalia.
Authorities say Graybeal was driving west on I-40 near U.S. Highway 15/501 Thursday when he crashed into four vehicles, killing three of the drivers.
According to WRAL-TV in Raleigh, Graybeal first crashed into the back of a Ford F-250 truck driven by John Hall Llanio, 38, of Kanapolis, and then a Chevy Equinox driven by Barbara Boda Caldwell, 64, of Mebane, troopers said. .….MORE

From News Democrat
An Edwardsville man who was drunk when he plowed a tow truck into a car, killing a man and his infant son, received a 16-year prison sentence Wednesday.
Mark Ikerman, 45, received the sentence from Associate Judge James Hackett in Madison County. Ikerman pleaded guilty in March to aggravated
DUI and leaving the scene of a fatal accident.  ….MORE

FROM WLS
May 23, 2011 (CHICAGO) — A Chicago Streets and Sanitation driver has been cited by police with driving under the influence in a Gold Coast accident Saturday. \
Eight people, including a child, were hurt after the truck he was driving crashed into them on a sidewalk. ….MORE

From JOURNAL STAR
A semi-truck driver involved in a six-vehicle wreck that sent five people to the hospital Saturday night was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving, Nebraska State Patrol spokeswoman Deb Collins said.
Troopers believe the trucker, Timothy T. Ogarey, 46, of Elk Grove, Calif., was under the influence of alcohol when his semi rear-ended a pickup on Interstate 80 near the 27th Street interchange in Lincoln just after 8 p.m. Saturday.
Collins said both Ogarey’s semi and the pickup vaulted into the center barrier, where they knocked a light pole across the eastbound lanes. Neither Ogarey nor the pickup driver, a 19-year-old York man, was injured…..MORE

From Democrat and Chronicle
A Canadian trucker was charged with felony driving while intoxicated last night after his rig was seen swerving on Route 63 in York, Livingston County.
Deputies said a test showed Andrew M. Liberka, 36, of Mississauga, Ontario, had a blood alcohol content of .18 percent, more than twice the legal limit of .08. ….MORE

From Shreveport Times
A Shreveport police officer is on administrative leave after being arrested on a driving while intoxicated charge Sunday.
Jason Saiz was driving his personal vehicle about 6:30 a.m. Sunday in the 5000 block of Airline Drive when state police pulled him over for speeding. Saiz was charged with driving while intoxicated and booked into the Bossier Parish Maximum Security Jail with bond set at $1,000.  ….MORE