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Saturday evening, January 18, 2003, was not a good time to be out driving in the Beavercreek area. There were three accidents involving alcohol within a couple of hours.
At 6:54 p.m. a vehicle flipped over on Beavercreek Rd., near Henrici Rd. The accident closed the road and caused a detour. The cause of the accident was attributed to alcohol The male was not seriously injured, but was sent to Willamette Falls Hospital and later booked at the jail on a DUII. More detailed information was not available by press time.
At about 10:30 p.m. a 1985 Chrysler LeBaron driven by Hector Garcia-Maldonado, address Oregon City, and his passenger lost control and ran up onto the wooden boardwalk in front of the Beavercreek Grocery. The car missed the three steel posts that are sunk into the ground, knocked the support from the east end of the roof, smashed a wooden bench attached to the wall and almost went into the beauty salon at the east end of the building.
The driver blew a .27 which is more than three times the legal limit of .08.
The driver had a drivers license, but no insurance. Neither he nor his passenger, who gave his residence as the same address as the driver, were injured. The driver was booked into custody on a DUII.
The third incident happed at about 10:35 p.m. near Buckner Creek Rd and Hidden Rd. Anyone who has driven Buckner Creek Rd knows that the corner where Hidden Rd comes in is a dangerous corner. It is practically a 45 degree turn.
Apparently some young people were out riding around and missed the corner and the car went down a 30 foot embankment. When the fire department arrived they were all out of the car. There were bottles scattered around the scene. The Sheriff was called, but because no one was injured and the car was off the road and did not pose a hazard to other motorists and because there were so many other accidents the Sheriffs Office was responding to at the time, they did not send an officer out.
Luckily no one was seriously injured. The sad thing is that this is the second time in recent memory that a speeder has run into the Beavercreek Grocery causing
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