Trucker charged with DWI in crash that injured three cops
A Michigan trucker faces felony DWI costs following a crash Sunday, April 23, that injured two Missouri Freeway Patrol troopers and an officer from the Glendale, Missouri police division.
James L. Gibbs, 62, of Flint, Michigan, was charged with two counts of DWI leading to an damage to legislation enforcement officers and one depend of failing to yield to emergency autos.
The crash occurred on eastbound Interstate 44 at about 2:30 a.m., when two freeway patrol autos and a Glendale police SUV have been blocking two lanes of the freeway close to South Lindbergh Boulevard. The officers had responded to a 2015 Honda Pilot that had damaged down in the course of the freeway. All three autos had emergency lights activated when Gibb’s truck got here down the freeway at full pace and crashed into the again of the freeway patrol autos and the facet of the Glendale police SUV, courtroom paperwork allege.
Two troopers and a Glendale officer contained in the autos on the time of the crash have been transported to a hospital with accidents. All three have since been launched.
After the crash, Gibbs admitted to investigators that he had taken one other particular person’s prescribed drugs earlier than driving. He additionally “carried out poorly” on a number of area sobriety assessments, a freeway patrol trooper wrote in charging paperwork.
The semi totaled each freeway patrol autos — a 2020 Dodge Charger and a 2023 Ford Explorer. The Glendale police SUV had average injury.
Gibbs’ cash-only bond was set at $100,000.
