Two Suffer Minor Injuries; One Charged With Drunken Driving
POSTED: 5:38 pm EDT July 15,
2005
UPDATED: 8:56 pm EDT July 15,
2005
INDIANAPOLIS -- Police say two Indianapolis men used a video camera to record themselves drinking alcohol shortly before they were involved in a one-vehicle crash.
Douglas Harris, 21, and his passenger, Dexter Schray, 18, suffered minor injuries early Thursday when Harris lost control of a car he was driving and crashed, the Marion County Sheriff's Department said.
A videotape shows the crash of a car driven an Indianapolis man who police say was intoxicated. The tape also shows the driver and the passenger drinking alcohol before the crash, authorities say.
Police responding to the wreck confiscated from the men a videotape that authorities say shows the two drinking alcohol Wednesday night, RTV6's Derrik Thomas reported Friday.The videotape also shows the crash and, minutes earlier, Harris using the car to do doughnuts in a parking lot, police said.The two failed sobriety tests after the crash, sheriff's Capt. Phil Burton said."They were extremely inebriated. They were just really drunk," Burton said.Harris is charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and public intoxication. Schray faces charges of possession of alcohol by a minor and public intoxication.Both were released on their own recognizance.
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