Texting and
Driving and Drinking=JAIL!
Jasper County-A Kentucky woman found
out this morning that when you text and drive and drink you end up in one place
and that’s jail.
Trooper Zachary Beaver responded to a single vehicle crash on
I-65 north bound at the 201 mile marker (this is four miles south of the
Remington/Rensselaer exit) at approximately 7:20 a.m., this Saturday, July 08,
2017, morning. Beaver located a 2008
Mazda, driven by a Leanna Murphy, 32 0f Walton, Kentucky, that had hit the
cable barrier in the median at that location.
Preliminary investigation revealed that Murphy stated she had been
texting and driving when she realized her car had drifted off from the left
lane, she overcorrected, swerved, and went off the roadway to the west hitting
the median cable barrier.
Further investigation by Trooper Beaver showed that Murphy
had also been drinking/impaired. Murphy
tested a .22% Blood Alcohol Content (B.A.C.) almost three times over the legal
limit (.08% B.A.C.) in Indiana.
Murphy was taken to the Jasper County Jail in Rensselaer
where she was incarcerated and charged with:
·
Unsafe lane Movement-infraction
·
Operating While Intoxicated-Class A Misdemeanor
Photo is of Leanna Murphy
All criminal defendants are to be presumed innocent
until, and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in a court of law.
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  Leanna Murphy
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