By Bob Bong
An Oak Lawn man was charged with drunken driving after a vehicle he was driving allegedly struck a house in the 5000 block of West 99th Street early Saturday morning.
Shortly after midnight on January 27, Oak Lawn police responded to a motor vehicle accident that involved a vehicle that ran into the front of a single-family home.
A preliminary investigation showed that a vehicle allegedly driven by 49-year-old Roberto Rios, of Oak Lawn, left the roadway after going through a stop sign and striking the house where a female resident had been sleeping on a couch. The force of the crash pushed the couch several feet inside the home. The female resident was taken to a local hospital where she was treated and released.
Rios was suspected of being under the influence of alcohol at the time of the crash. Rios was taken into police custody and transported to a local hospital with minor injuries. At the hospital, it was learned that Rios’s blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit.
Rios has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, having a blood alcohol content over .08, reckless driving, disobeying a stop sign and failure to reduce speed to avoid an accident.
Rios was cited and released from the hospital. His next scheduled court date is February 28 at the Bridgeview Courthouse.