Head-on crash in Delta involving suspected drunk driver leaves child seriously hurt
Posted January 20, 2020 11:55 am.
Last Updated January 20, 2020 12:06 pm.
DELTA (NEWS 1130) – A head-on crash in Delta last week left a child seriously hurt, and police believe it was caused by an impaired driver.
Delta police say they arrested the driver of the car that smashed into the one carrying a family of three in it on River Road in Delta on Tuesday night.
The driver wasn’t seriously hurt, and neither were the child’s parents.
“It is completely unacceptable,” Cris Leykauf with the Delta Police Department says. “Now a young child has paid the price for someone’s selfish choice that they made.”
The day before the crash, Delta police shared on social media that they had confronted several drunk drivers off the road over the span of a week.
“Our officers had taken nine drunk drivers off the road on the weekend and an additional six impaired drivers earlier that week,” Leykauf explained.
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The child hurt in Tuesday’s crash was released from the hospital over the weekend, and is now recovering at home.
The investigation is ongoing but Delta police say they are pursuing impaired driving charges.
-With files from Mike Lloyd
