A suspected driver under the influence of alcohol rammed through a chain-link fence, crossed a field and struck an electrical box early Thursday morning, leaving one passenger with severe head wounds, police reported.

The woman, who was around the age of 30, was traveling in a Pontiac Firebird headed west on Paradise Valley Road near South Meadowbrook Drive in Bay Terraces when she veered off the road, police stated.

The driver received minor injuries and was retained to be looked at further, police Sgt. Ray Battrick reported. Charges against the driver have been filed.

A male passenger in the vehicle was transported to the hospital with severe head injuries and a female passenger was taken for small injuries, police stated.

A motorcyclist thought to be under the influence of alcohol slammed into a tree and broke his hip on Saturday morning in San Diego’s Kensington neighborhood, police reported.

The crash took place around 11 a.m. by the intersection of Aldine Drive and Van Dyke Avenue. The motorcyclist was heading up a hill on eastbound Aldine Drive when police report that he made “an unsafe movement” and ran into a palm tree. The man, who was around the age of 45, was driving while drunk, police reported.

The man was injured in his hip but was expected to live.

A woman of San Diego was taken into custody on murder charges and drunken driving having to do with a tragic car accident in April on the Silver Strand, police reported Tuesday night.

Stevens Benjamin Friedman, 95, of Coronado, was killed in the fatal crash and two others were severely wounded.

Coronado police took Melanie Rebecca Flores, 47, into custody and she was held in the Las Colinas Detention Facility by 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, reported Lea Corbin, a Coronado police spokeswoman.

Flores is charged with drunken driving on April 21 when she ran into two cars, wounding the drivers and Friedman.

Friedman was in the front-passenger seat of one car during the crash which took place around 2:10 p.m. near Coronado Cays Boulevard, police reported. He passed away from severe trauma from the force of impact to his chest, the Medical Examiner’s Office stated earlier.

The road was shut down for over two hours in both lanes as police looked into the incident.

Flores is set to stand trial in court on Thursday.

A passenger on a public bus suspected that the driver was possibly drunk and reported the driver to the Sheriff’s Department on Tuesday. Deputies took the driver into custody for drunken driving charges. 

Deputies pulled the bus over on route 309 from Oceanside to Encinitas around 4:25 p.m. as it was traveling  east on Encinitas Boulevard by Calle Magdalena and came to the conclusion that the driver appeared to be drunk, the Sheriff’s Department reported.

Deputies then carried out a field sobriety test with the driver and in conclusion from what they saw, the 40-year-old driver was taken into custody for drunkenly driving a public bus. 

“We take this allegation seriously, and we will be very aggressive in investigating and taking whatever action is necessary to prevent a reoccurrence of this event,” reported Matt Tucker, the North County Transit District’s executive director.

The district will not give any more information until after the investigation has ended.

The driver was working for First Transit, a company the district contracts with for drivers, Tucker stated. 

The district is of service to 12 million passengers in the North San Diego ares and by being in control of the COASTER train to downtown San Diego.

Police set up a DUI checkpoint in Pacific Beach which resulted in the arrest of 13 individuals on Saturday evening. 

The checkpoint took place at Grand Avenue near Noyes street in front of Mission Bay High School around 9 p.m. and lasted until 2:30 a.m., stated Officer Mark McCullough.

Officers stopped 1,126 drivers and held 40 for testing for driving while intoxicated, McCullough reported.

Officers also cited two people for driving with a suspended license and two other for having marijuana, McCullough added.

Workers belonging to the Public Utilities Commission assisted at the site to search  “party buses” and limousines.

They searched 12 vehicles, gave out seven written violations and impounded one bus because the driver did not have a legal license, McCollough stated. The PUC exists to check and oversee commercial vehicles. 

McCullough declared the checkpoint successful and added that officers are attempting to inform people about the risk and danger involved in drinking and driving. Officers are particularly worried about the approaching high school prom season and the accidents that come along with that.

A man driving his SUV ran into a concrete wall in an underground parking structure in Little Italy early Saturday, hurting two passengers, San Diego Police reported. 

The accident took place at about 2 a.m. on Kettner Boulevard near West Ash Street. The 42-year-old driver was taken into custody for drunken driving, Officer David Stafford stated. 

The driver was severely injured one of his legs and the passengers received minor wounds.  

All three were transported to a hospital in the area for medical aide, Stafford reported.

Three people, one of which was a baby, were hurt in a head-on collision on Friday afternoon on state Route 67 south of Foster Truck Trail, authorities reported.

The crash took place around 1:55 p.m. in an area south of Iron Mountain.

A 22-year-old Lakeside man was traveling in his car north on Route 67 when he steered into the opposite lane after crossing a double-yellow line, CHP Officer Brian Pennings stated.

The road in that area is composed of two northbound lanes and one southbound lane, Pennings informed.

Another driver, a 23-year-old man from San Diego, was traveling south when he saw the other car heading straight at him. He could not move out of the man’s way in time, Pennings stated. He received a broken leg and arm.

Both cars stopped in the southbound lane. Southbound traffic was directed away from Route 67 at Scripps Poway Parkway as officials dealt with the crash.

The driver and his one-year-old son received moderate wounds.

All three victims were transported by ambulance to a hospital. All were expected to recover, Pennings stated.

Pennings first reported that that the driver who swerved into oncoming traffic, may have been driving under the influence of prescription drugs. He could potentially be charged with a DUI and child endangerment, the officer reported.

A woman was taken into custody under charges of driving while intoxicated on Friday night after she ran into a TV news crew’s lighting equipment and then collided into a hill by Poway High School, authorities stated.

The 36-year-old woman received injuries on her face in the accident, which was called in around 6:40 p.m. Friday, reported Sheriff’s Sgt. Keith Griggs.

The woman ran into the drove into the KFMB Channel 8 news crew and their set up.

Authorities reported that the woman was under the influence and was driving out of control.

A 24-year-old woman from Escondido was killed when she was the passenger of a vehicle who was ejected when it rolled over in the desert by Palmdale, the CHP reported Sunday.

According to the Los Angeles County coroner, the woman was said to be Michelle Garcia, of Escondido. She was not buckled in while riding in the car.  

The driver, a 29-year-old man from Escondido, was hurt in the accident and taken into custody on charges of driving under the influence of alcohol, reported CHP Officer Monica Posada.

There as slight rainfall when the crash occurred, which was around 3 a.m. Saturday morning on a straight stretch of Avenue S near Tovey Avenue, Posada stated. The driver was traveling east when the vehicle swerved onto the shoulder, Posada reported. 

It then jerked back onto the four-lane road and flipped over in the median, sliding across two lanes and landing on its roof in the desert path, the officer stated.  

Officials are not certain how fast the driver was traveling.