Police: Charges Pending in Highlands Crash; Driver Appeared Drunk

UPDATED @ 4:30 p.m. May 18: The driver in this case logged a blood-alcohol level of 0.337, according to borough police. The threshold for DUI in Pennsylvania is 0.08.

Also according to police, the driver was in Centre County on Monday because he had to attend an Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition program class in Bellefonte.

Charges against him will be filed by summons, police said.

Earlier coverage is posted below.

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Earlier report, posted @ 6:38 p.m. May 17:

Charges are pending against a Somerset County man after an overnight wreck in State College’s Highlands neighborhood, according to borough police.

It happened about 11 p.m. Monday at Hetzel Street and East Hamilton Avenue, a police report shows. A motorist — identified as the Somerset County man — was driving a Toyota RAV4 that went off the roadway, traveled onto a residential property and hit a stone wall, according to the report.

Police said the man appeared to be highly intoxicated and failed a field sobriety test. He was taken for a blood test, but results were not immediately available, the police report shows. No severe injuries were reported.

Shortly before the crash, according to the police report, officers were dispatched to a report of a similar-looking vehicle headed the wrong way on the 400 block of East College Avenue. That vehicle reportedly turned onto Hetzel Street and had its headlights off.

As of Tuesday afternoon, the driver in the crash had yet to be charged formally, police said. Because charges are not yet filed, StateCollege.com is not posting the driver’s name at this time.