A man has been arrested for DUI in the state of Florida while using his motorized wheelchair. According to authorities in Brevard County, Ronny Scott Hicks, 54, was arrested shortly after midnight at AIS Trail Park in the town of Palm Bay after police said that he was blocking multiple lanes of traffic on a bridge. Officers indicate that Hicks smelled strongly of alcohol.

Hicks refused to take a field sobriety test and he declined treatment for an unexplained head wound.

Hicks is currently being held in the Brevard County Jail on $5,000 bond. Court records indicate that Hicks has had previous DUI convictions: two in 2013 and one in 1998. The records do not indicate, however, whether the previous convictions were while Hicks was in a wheelchair or another type of vehicle.

It doesn’t matter what type of motorized vehicle you are operating, whether it is an automobile, boat, lawnmower, golf cart or even a motorized wheelchair, driving after you have been drinking is never a good idea.… Read More

A Delaware man has been arrested for what will be his seventh DUI after he crashed into a parked school bus and then passed out.

According a report from Delaware State Police Troopers, the accident occurred at approximately 10:10 a.m. on Thursday at the First Student Transportation bus yard located in Newark.

When State Troopers arrived on the scene, they found John R. Owens, 57, passed out behind the wheel of his Dodge Caliber.

Investigators reports that Owens entered the bus lot, struck the rear of a parked school bus and then exited the lot only to later return and collide with a chain link fence before passing out in his vehicle.

Emergency crews transported Owens from his vehicle in the bus lot and to the Christiana Hospital for evaluation. He was not injured in the crash.

State Police have charged Owens with DUI, Driving while Suspended and driving with No Valid Proof of Insurance.… Read More

Nine people have been injured after an accident involving a car, an SUV and a school bus last week. Among the injured were four students.

According to authorities, the accident happened at the intersection of Rampart and Bissonet streets when the driver of a silver Toyota FJ Cruiser traveling at a high rate of speed down Rampart crashed their vehicle into a maroon car and pushed it into the school bus.

Witnesses say she started pushing on the brake to stop but the driver of the Toyota kept pushing. The driver did stop eventually but not until the car had been left in a mangled hulk between the two other vehicles.

A total of nine people were transported by paramedics to an area hospital. Four of those injured were students on the school bus, while the other accident victims included two children and one adult in the maroon car and two people who were in the Toyota Cruiser at the time of the accident.… Read More

According to authorities, Clint Edelman, 34, of the Swisshelm Park neighborhood in Pittsburgh struck Melissa Brown as she crossed the intersection of South Beatty Street and Baum Boulevard in her motorized wheelchair. Edelman left Brown in the middle of the street among the wreckage of her wheelchair and in a pool of blood.

Video shows Edelman failing to stop his vehicle, a white Pontiac, at the sign and the pedestrian crosswalk, striking Brown. Brown was watching the ensuing commotion from a parking lot from across the street until eyewitnesses identified him to police as having been the one who caused the accident.

An 8-year-old boy had been walking alongside Brown’s wheelchair at the time of the incident, but was unharmed.

Brown was transported to UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in critical condition. She remains in the hospital with multiple broken bones and head injuries.

Officers reported that Edelman’s speech was slurred, his eyes were bloodshot and he smelled strongly of alcohol at the time.… Read More

The Allegheny County District Attorney’s Offices has announced that it is now investigating the mother of a 20 year old son. The son struck and killed a 6-year-old with her car.

Investigators say that they are trying to determine whether the mother of Travis Grayson, 20, gave the minor alcohol and whether she knew he was drunk when he left the family home on Saturday.

According to authorities, Grayson was driving his Ford Mustang when he struck and killed Ava Campbell, aged 6, on Locust Ridge Drive located in Shaler Township.

Grayson allegedly admitted to police of having consumed 10 beers at the time of the fatal accident and had been smoking marijuana at home just hours before. Grayson also told police officers that his mother and sister had been at home at the time.

The DA’s office said that Travis’ mother, Dawn Grayson, could be facing criminal charges of her own in the incident.… Read More