KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – A San Jose man has been arrested for drunk driving following a crash that injured him and his passenger on Halloween night.
Eric James Bembry, 35, was arrested for two felony counts of driving under the influence of alcohol causing injury for the solo-vehicle wreck, which the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office said occurred at 10:20 p.m. Tuesday.
The report said that at approximately 10:27 p.m. CHP Dispatch received a call of a solo-vehicle traffic collision with unknown injuries on Highway 175 near Harrington Flat Road.
CHP officers responded to the scene and located a silver 2010 Ford Fusion approximately 50 feet down a steep downhill embankment, the report said. The vehicle had major rollover, front end and side damage.
The CHP said its officers contacted Bembry and his passenger, 21-year-old Kelseyville resident Kashi Shiva Arbeeny, at the scene. Bembry, the registered owner of the vehicle, was determined to have been driving at the time of the collision.
The investigation determined that Bembry was driving the Ford eastbound on Highway 175, west of Harrington Flat Road, at an unknown speed when the crash occurred, the CHP said.
Due to Bembry’s level of intoxication, the CHP said he allowed the vehicle to leave the roadway and continue down the embankment.
The vehicle overturned multiple times before hitting a tree, the CHP said.
Arbeeny, who was sitting in the right front seat restrained by a lap/shoulder harness, was transported to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital via air ambulance to be treated for his injuries, which included a broken right arm, according to the CHP.
Bembry, who was wearing a lap/shoulder harness, sustained minor injuries, the CHP said.
The CHP placed Bembry under arrest for driving under the influence of alcohol before he was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lakeport for treatment of his injuries, the report said.
The crash took place less than 10 minutes after another solo-vehicle DUI wreck which occurred on Highway 175 at Red Hills Road. The CHP said that crash also led to an arrest.
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