Texting driver hits tree - accident results in OVWI arrest

Sunday, December 28, 2008

A woman who was trying to send a text message on a cell phone, while she was driving, ran off the road, hit a tree, and then got taken to jail early Sunday.

Thirty-three-year-old Amber Parsons of Odon was arrested by Greene County Sheriff's Deputy Jeremy Inman on preliminary charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

The arrest came after Inman and Deputy Chris McDonald responded to a one-vehicle accident around 2:55 a.m. Sunday on County Road 300W south of CR 700S in Cass Township near Newberry.

Parsons was southbound on CR 300W in a 2005 GMC Envoy when she ran off the the west side of the road. She told the deputies she was texting on her cell phone. The vehicle struck a tree.

Parsons received minor injuries in the accident and the Greene County Ambulance Service responded to the scene but Parsons refused treatment.

Inman reported that while he was speaking with Parsons, she appeared to be intoxicated. She tested at .16 BAC (Blood-Alcohol Content).

The preliminary charges against Parsons include three counts related to operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

She was being held in lieu of $4,000 bond.

In another incident early Sunday, Travis S. Chandler, 30, Bloomfield, was arrested by Bloomfield Deputy Marshal Jordan Hasler.

Chandler was booked into jail on preliminary charges of six counts related to operating a vehicle while intoxicated and was being held in lieu of $8,000 bond.

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I think anyone texting while driving should be taken to jail. Think how easy it would be to drive around Bloomington with half the college kids in jail.....

-- Posted by Free4now on Sun, Dec 28, 2008, at 3:35 PM

You make a good point, Free4now!

-- Posted by anon on Sun, Dec 28, 2008, at 6:24 PM

it's now a $25 fine in Bloomington to text while driving.

-- Posted by am1982 on Sun, Dec 28, 2008, at 9:35 PM

i thought the commercial said u better think twice before u get behind the wheel of a vehicle after drinkin?? well i dont think these people seen that commercial or they dont care about whose lives they could have put into danger. texting while driving should have been banned a long time ago.they need a fine for it here in greene county too.

-- Posted by hoosiermomma on Sun, Dec 28, 2008, at 11:53 PM

Texting or talking on a phone while you driving should result in a fine. Most Women while gossiping forgets about anything else.

-- Posted by exlintonresident2 on Mon, Dec 29, 2008, at 8:50 AM

Maybe she was receiving a text from GCDW?..:)

-- Posted by Dtown on Mon, Dec 29, 2008, at 12:13 PM

I have had too many close calls (no pun) with people on the road yaking on their cell phones.

I think it should be illegal totally to talk on a phone while driving.

PULL OVER and stop putting people at RISK. I don't even own a cell phone and never plan on doing so. I think I'm beyond the Technology Monkeys that have to have gadgets glued to their ears and finger tips.

-- Posted by rant on Mon, Dec 29, 2008, at 12:15 PM

exlintonresident2 yes and men NEVER text or talk on there cell phone while driving ever.It's always us women.GROW UP.

-- Posted by am1982 on Tue, Dec 30, 2008, at 10:24 PM

well said am1982... u should do neither but dont u think the alcohol had more to do with this accident never ever drink and drive but thank god no one was hurt

-- Posted by victoriacase on Fri, Jan 2, 2009, at 12:39 AM