An Evansville, Indiana teenager has been charged with drunken driving after she allegedly tried to drive away from a crash with flat tires grinding the pavement and her vehicle’s headlights off. The driver was 19 years old. When police pulled her over, she told them something about her family that did not appear to change her situation.
According to the Evansville Police Department, the crash happened after midnight Friday morning on North Green River Road near a Fazoli’s restaurant. Police said the driver, identified as Alexia Johnson, struck a curb and a post. She then drove off.
The flat tires and the missing headlights, by the police account, made the vehicle difficult to miss. Officers caught up to her shortly afterward and pulled her over. They asked who she was.
Police said Johnson told officers she was the daughter of a deputy in Kentucky. The disclosure did not change the field sobriety tests, which police said she failed. It also did not change her blood alcohol level, which police said was over the legal limit.
What Police Say Happened
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According to the Evansville Police Department, officers responded after midnight on Friday, June 5, to a crash on North Green River Road near a Fazoli’s restaurant. A preliminary investigation found that Alexia Johnson, 19, had struck a curb and a post and then continued driving away from the scene.
The vehicle was missing headlights and had at least one flat tire grinding against the pavement as she drove on, the agency said.
The DUI Stop
Officers pulled Johnson over shortly after the crash, the police account says. She told the officers that her father was a Kentucky sheriff’s deputy. Police said Johnson failed field sobriety tests at the scene and that her blood alcohol level was above Indiana’s legal limit. Unfortunately for her, her alleged relationship to an officer didn’t get her anywhere after the incident.
Johnson has been charged with driving while intoxicated and leaving the scene of a crash, according to the Evansville Police Department. She was booked into the Vanderburgh County Jail. And as a reminder for anyone who might think that fleeing the scene is a good idea, even if your relatives do happen to be law enforcement, it wouldn’t get you out of a similar situation.