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Alcohol Soaked Motor Vehicle Crash

(La Porte, IN) - No wonder a La Porte man crashed his vehicle.  According to police, he drank enough alcohol to be lethal in some people.

 

Early Sunday, police were called to the 800 block of Lake Shore Drive in La Porte where a car was in a ditch.  Police said Baldemar Luna Vazquez safely got out of the vehicle.  He was taken to the hospital where a blood draw revealed an alleged blood alcohol level of .44-percent or five and a half times the legal limit.  Police said he could barely walk and rolled off a hospital bed before falling to sleep.

 

Luna Vazquez was charged with operating while intoxicated as a level 6 felony due to a prior OWI

conviction.

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