LAKEPORT, Calif. – Police arrested a teenage boy from Kelseyville who had a blood alcohol limit three times the legal limit after he ran a stop sign and crashed into a People Services bus early Thursday.
The teen, whose name was not released because of his age, was taken into custody for felony driving under the influence causing injury, according to the Lakeport Police Department.
At approximately 7:43 a.m. Thursday Lakeport Police officers were dispatched to a traffic collision involving two vehicles at the intersection of Armstrong and S. Estep streets, police reported.
The department reported that officers arrived within seconds and observed a bus belonging to People Services Inc., occupied by eight passengers, had been involved in the collision, along with a second vehicle driven by the 17-year-old Kelseyville juvenile.
Through the course of the investigation, the Lakeport Police Department said its officers learned the bus was traveling east on Armstrong Street and as it entered the intersection with S. Estep Street.
The male juvenile, traveling on S. Estep, ran the stop sign at Armstrong Street and collided with the bus, police said.
As a result of the collision, police said three of the passengers on the bus received non-life threatening injuries and were treated and released at scene by Lakeport Fire personnel.
While at the scene, the police department said officers determined the male juvenile was displaying signs of intoxication.
They conducted a series of field sobriety tests and determined the male juvenile was three times over the legal limit, which is 0.08 percent, the blood alcohol content for adults, police said.
Officers subsequently arrested the teen for felony driving while under the Influence and causing injury, and transported him to the Lake County Probation Department where he was booked.
Police arrest teenager for DUI following Thursday morning injury crash
- Lake County News reports