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California Man Suspected of DUI in Car-Train Collision

By Chris Kramer

Here’s a sign you may be driving under the influence: You drive your car off a cliff, leave it on the train track, and watch it get hit by a train. That’s what police suspect happened after a Union Pacific cargo-line train collided with a car outside of King City, Calif., early Monday morning, according to Central Coast newspaper The Californian. The driver, 20-year-old Augustin Ramirez Lara of Greenfield, Calif., told police had been driving his Honda Accord at about 9 p.m. Sunday when it veered off and down a cliff, landing on the tracks. The crash occurred about 7 hours later, at 3:55 a.m. Lara was not in his car, but he was in the vicinity, according to California Highway Patrol Officer B. Wright. Lara was sitting on a hillside about 20 feet from the tracks when paramedics arrived, he said...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on May 12, 2009 (boomark / email).