Woman who crashed car with BAC five times the legal limit given suspended sentence
Lang
4/25/19
A Coralville woman found crawling away from her vehicle last fall after allegedly becoming extremely intoxicated and crashing has been given a suspended sentence.
Online records show 39-year-old Natalie Roberts of 5th Avenue reached a plea deal last month.
Roberts was given a suspended five-year sentence on a charge of Operating While Intoxicated – 3rd and Subsequent Offense. A Public Intoxication charge was dropped.
According to arrest records, an officer responded to the 300 block of 6th Street early the morning of Oct. 8 after a concerned citizen reported a single-vehicle accident involving a street sign. The caller said the driver had begun to crawl away from her vehicle.
When the officer arrived on scene, he says he found Roberts still crawling in the roadway about 100 feet from her vehicle. He says she showed multiple signs of intoxication, could not stand up, and began to undress while “wailing nonsensically.”
A preliminary breath test showed Roberts’ BAC to be .397 and she was taken to the hospital due to her level of intoxication.