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Recent grad faces DUI charge following fiery crash (w/police report)

By on June 10, 2009

Police incident report
Ed Morales
Police incident report
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Ed Morales
CASON

A recent University graduate faces a DUI charge after a night of downtown drinking resulted in a fiery car crash Sunday night, according to Athens-Clarke County police.

Stacy Paige Cason, 22, lost control of her 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe while driving on South Church Street. According to the police report, she hit two parked cars, went over a wall and ran into a power pole which ignited her vehicle. Cason, who graduated in May, was not injured in the crash. She was also charged with failure to obey a stop sign and improper driving.

From the report:

“I could smell a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage on her breath,” the arresting officer wrote. Cason consented to field sobriety tests. After arriving at the Athens-Clarke County Eastside precinct, a breath test revealed a blood alcohol content of .216, nearly three times the legal limit

Cason told the officer she had been eating and drinking at the Last Resort Grill with a friend.

Cason told the officer she had “one or two glasses of wine.” Her friend, a passenger in the car, told the officer both of them had three glasses of wine.

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