Post by cviller on Jan 15, 2009 11:03:06 GMT -5
A woman leaving the WVU/Marshall basketball game at the Charleston Civic Center Wednesday night is recovering from injuries after being struck by a drunken driver. Police say Tiffany Fowler was hit as she tried to cross Quarrier Street near the Civic Center as fans were leaving the game.
The driver is identified as 31-year old Victor Giron of Dunbar.
"What we see all too often, somebody got behind the wheel of a car with way too much to drink and she was struck by this drunk driver," said Charleston Police Sgt. Shawn Williams.
Giron registered a .258 blood alcohol content, more than three times the legal limit of .08.
"He wasn't in a state that could really explain where he'd been or was going," Williams tells MetroNews. "He made a statement that he'd been working and said he works at Rio Grande Restaurant. I would most definitely hope he wasn't drinking while he was working and then got in a car. With his B-A-C that high we're not sure if he actually knew what he was talking about."
Giron is in the South Central Regional Jail charged with aggravated DUI and DUI causing injury. Fowler was taken to CAMC with non-life threatening injuries, but her condition is unknown.