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Cops and Courts Briefs
Cathy Bayer/Police and Courts Reporter
Issue date: 2/18/08 Section: News
A 22-year-old Mattoon man was arrested Tuesday morning after crashing into a stoplight pole on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Douglas Drive.
Tyler M. Moran was driving east around 6:30 a.m. on Lincoln Avenue when his car spun around and collided with the pole. Moran was arrested and ticketed with driving too fast for conditions and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, according to police reports.
No one was injured in the crash.
A Charleston man was driving down the Lake Charleston Hill on Tuesday morning when he lost control of his van. The vehicle flipped onto its left side and slid across the roadway, stopping in a ravine around 7:30 a.m. in the Lake Charleston loop.
No one was injured in the crash, and no arrests were made.
The 50-year-old driver said he did not know the roadway was icy.
- Compiled by Cathy Bayer, cops and courts reporter.
Tyler M. Moran was driving east around 6:30 a.m. on Lincoln Avenue when his car spun around and collided with the pole. Moran was arrested and ticketed with driving too fast for conditions and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident, according to police reports.
No one was injured in the crash.
A Charleston man was driving down the Lake Charleston Hill on Tuesday morning when he lost control of his van. The vehicle flipped onto its left side and slid across the roadway, stopping in a ravine around 7:30 a.m. in the Lake Charleston loop.
No one was injured in the crash, and no arrests were made.
The 50-year-old driver said he did not know the roadway was icy.
- Compiled by Cathy Bayer, cops and courts reporter.
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