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Bath Police Stop Two Wrong-Way Drivers From Getting on I-77

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removed two suspected drunk drivers from the roadways this past week, in one case averting the possibility of a head-on collision on I-77.

At 2:43 a.m. on April 1, a Bath officer saw two cars heading the wrong way on an I-77 ramp from Ghent Road. The vehicles were traveling north on the off ramp for southbound I-77 traffic.

“Both cars were stopped before they got into a head-on accident,” the officer wrote in his report.

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The driver of the first car, he said, “had an odor of an alcoholic beverage coming from her.” Police said she performed poorly on field sobriety tests, was arrested and taken to the Bath police department for processing.

At the station, the 24-year-old woman was given an alcohol breath test and registered a blood alcohol content of .205. The legal blood alcohol limit for driving in Ohio is .08.

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The woman was issued three citations, including drunk driving and driving the wrong way on the interstate. The driver of the second vehicle also was cited for driving the wrong way on the interstate.

In an unrelated incident, a Bath officer on patrol at 9:19 p.m. March 30 came upon a vehicle that had hit a light pole in the 4000 block of Medina Road.

The officer approached the vehicle, which was still running, and found the male driver still seated at the steering wheel. Police said the man, 49, was “very disoriented and an odor of a suspected alcoholic beverage was noticed.”

The driver performed poorly on field sobriety tests, was arrested for drunk driving and failure to control. He was taken to the police station for processing and given an alcohol breath test which registered a blood alcohol content of .154.

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