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Police: Accused DUII Driver Hits Cop Cars

Police: Driver Called 911, Said She'd Taken Pills

POSTED: 12:37 pm PDT June 10, 2009
UPDATED: 1:26 pm PDT June 10, 2009

A driver was arrested on charges of driving under the influence of a controlled substance after crashing into two patrol cars on Sunday night.

Police said Lindsey King, 19, called 911 Sunday night and said she was driving but didn't know where she was and couldn't see. The dispatcher said she tried to get King to pull over but she wouldn't stop. King told the dispatcher she had taken several different types of pills, police said.

Multiple witnesses also called 911 to report a green Honda swerving erratically across both lanes of Highway 217 near Beaverton and hitting the center median several times a little after 9 p.m., police said.

As the driver, who was later identified as King, approached the Southwest Beaverton Hillsdale Highway/Canyon Road exit she crossed both lanes of traffic, struck the center median and then drove back across traffic to hit a guardrail on the other side, witnesses told police.

The Honda didn't stop and swerved again to the left, striking the center barrier before turning sharply back into the right lane where King hit a Beaverton police officer's patrol unit that was parked on the shoulder involved in a separate traffic stop, police said.

After the woman struck the patrol unit she swerved back to the left before making a sharp turn right into a second officer's car, police said.

The car finally stopped and officers could see that the air bag had deployed, police said.

View Photos Of The Crash

King was taken to a hospital where she was treated for minor injuries and consumption of drugs. Police said she will be charged with reckless driving, reckless endangering, criminal mischief and driving under the influence of a controlled substance.

The two police cars that were hit were stopped just south of Walker Road. The officers were not in their cars when they were hit and no one suffered major injuries in the crashes.

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