(Lake County, IN) - Earlier this week a Michigan City man was arrested for various offenses connected to a late-night interstate accident in Lake County.
Shortly after 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, police responded to an accident on eastbound I-80/94. A 2015 Ford Taurus had sideswiped a semi, which crashed into a median wall and overturned. The semi also hit some construction equipment being used by two overnight highway workers.
Witnesses reported someone fleeing from the Taurus after it came to rest in a ditch. Later a man and a woman returned to the scene, the woman claiming to have been the driver. Police were suspicious of the story and determined that the man was driving and was drunk.
30-year-old Charles Luis Garcia Berrios of Michigan City was charged with OWI, driving with a suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, and false informing. The woman, a 35-year-old from Merrillville, was also charged with false informing.
