GENEVA-ON-THE-LAKE — Let’s hope he got the premium car insurance package.
A Warren man totaled his brand-new car early Sunday morning after he allegedly drove drunk and veered off Lake Road, crashing through the fence at Geneva Township Park and careening into the Lake Erie beach, Police Chief Tim Bruckman said.
The 45-year-old man, who police won’t identify until his arraignment Thursday in Western County Court, had just purchased the Chrysler 300M, which has just 3,000 miles on the odometer, Bruckman said.
“It was a very, very new car,” Bruckman said. “A very new car that was very nice until it almost rolled into the lake.”
Police reports indicate the car was traveling east at a high rate of speed at 1:30 a.m. Sunday when the driver lost control. The vehicle rolled over several times over the embankment to the lake before stopping at the break wall, Bruckman said.
“If not for that erosion wall, (the driver) certainly would have been in the lake,” Bruckman said.
The driver refused medical attention at the scene, but all three of his passengers were transported to UH-Geneva Medical Center for treatment.
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