The person charged with injuring 4 first responders after driving right into a crash investigation whereas drunk pleaded responsible to a number of counts of assault Wednesday, based on court docket information.
Benjamin Winters, 24, was charged with 5 counts of assault: vehicular assault whereas driving underneath the affect of medication or alcohol, vehicular assault associated to reckless driving and three counts of third-degree assault on a peace officer, based on court docket information. He pleaded responsible to all counts on Wednesday.
Winters was arrested with a $10,000 bail on Dec. 7 after he allegedly drove round police boundaries and hit two South Adams County firefighters and two Commerce Metropolis law enforcement officials who had been investigating a DUI crash on westbound Interstate 76.
Officers had been directing visitors to the precise shoulder when Winters tried to drive on the left shoulder across the blockade, hitting a cable guard rail and two firefighters earlier than persevering with westbound and injuring two law enforcement officials and hitting a police automobile, based on the arrest affidavit.
One firefighter was taken to the hospital with a head harm and a damaged leg. The opposite firefighter and two officers had been taken to the hospital with severe accidents.
Winter will return to court docket for his sentence listening to on Aug. 9.
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