No injuries in western Daviess County accident….one arrested after a Dubois County crash..
There were no injuries in an early morning Sunday morning accident. It happened on US 50 in Barr Township east of County Road 825-east.
Accident reports say that 44-year-old Michael W. Patterson of Franklin, Indiana was driving a 1999 Expedition with a tow dolly pulling a BMW. He was westbound when he said an eastbound vehicle crossed the center line and he swerved to the right to avoid a collision. The Expedition went off of the right side of the road on the soft shoulder. The tow dolly pulled the vehicle down an embankment where the vehicle’s went through a fence and hit a utility pole and sank in the mud in a private yard.
The driver of the other vehicle came back and asked if there were any injuries and then left. That vehicle was described as a white mini-van with a female driver.
Again Patterson was not injured in the crash.
A motorist in Dubois County is facing charges after a crash Sunday at 3:35-pm.
The Dubois County Sheriff’s Department reports they were investigating a reckless driver report on State Road 231. Deputies located the 1996 Ford Explorer on Dubois County Road 1100 South. It had ran off of the road and turned over. The driver, 49-year-old Andrade Mora Prisco was trapped and had to be extricated. He was taken to Memorial Hospital for treatment. He will be charged with operating without a license and operating while intoxicated.