(La Porte County, IN) - A car was found in a ditch near Westville last night but the driver was nowhere to be found.

About 7:30 p.m., La Porte County Police were called to S. Otis Road for a car in a ditch.  The driver was not there but a check of the registration led police to the home of the owner of the vehicle on 200 South.

Officers knocked on the door but there was no answer.

Police said there were several empty vodka bottles in the vehicle along with more than a dozen prescription pills.  Later, the owner contacted a sheriff’s deputy, saying he wound up in the ditch after swerving to miss a deer and walked home because his phone was dead,  police said.

No arrests were reported.