Crime & Safety
Drunk Driver Suffers Serious Injuries in Car Accident
Florissant man helicoptered to Barnes Hospital in St. Louis with serious injuries following car accident near West Alton.
A 27-year-old man from Florissant was taken to the hospital with serious injuries after the car he was driving early Sunday morning was totaled in a car accident near West Alton.
According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol website, Alfred Reese wasd driving his 1997 Volkswagon Golf southbound on Highway 67 at 1 a.m. on Dec. 23 when he traveled off the right side of the road and overturned his car.
Reese was soon thereafter taken to Barnes Hospital by helicopter with serious injuries.
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Reese was later charged with DWI while being held at the hospital, according to the Missouri State Highway Patrol arrest reports.
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