ISP: Northwest Indiana arrested after hit and run on highway during ‘blizzard-like conditions’
PORTER COUNTY, Ind. – A northwestern Indiana woman is charged after Indiana state police said she was injured while driving on the highway Friday in blizzard-like conditions.
ISP sergeant. Glen Fifield said the 32-year-old woman, of Chesterton, Indiana, tried to flee after hitting a semi-truck on Interstate 94 while crews were clearing a dangerous situation in the eastbound lanes.
Soldiers witnessed the crash and caught up with the woman a few miles away when she crashed into a ditch, Fifield said in a news release.
A police officer launched an OWI investigation and Fifield said the woman refused to take a breath test. She was taken to a hospital to be checked and given a warrant for a blood draw.
The woman was later booked in the Porter County Jail and preliminarily charged with operating under the influence with a previous conviction, operating under the influence while intoxicated, leaving the scene of an accident and operating under the influence, Fifield said.
The blizzard-like conditions and hazardous materials situation led the Soldiers and the Indiana Department of Transportation to urge drivers not to travel on I-94 and in northwest Indiana.
