While dispatched to a restaurant burglar alarm, Olympia Police witnessed the tire explode off of an impaired driver’s car as she hit the curb on the street next to the building last Wednesday.
Jessica Harrison, 31, was arrested for driving under the influence at 2:50 a.m. on May 12 after police stopped her vehicle, which had an exploding muffler and flat tires running across the pavement of Black Lake Blvd SW.
Harrison’s vehicle was stopped at a nearby apartment complex, with both the front and rear passenger side tires completely flat, the rim of the front passenger tire bearing a large tear.
In the police report, officers noticed Harrison’s eyes were bloodshot and watery. Harrison said that she knew her tires were flat and “I was trying to find a safe place to park. I didn’t want to park on the side of the road.”
Harrison told officers that she had consumed marijuana and a beer, but that was “way earlier.”
Olympia Police discovered Harrison’s car had made impact with a curb at the 1200 block of Black Lake Blvd SW.
Harrison admitted to police that she had drunk five Truly beers before driving and was on her way home from a gas station when she hit the curb. She told police that she felt it was too dangerous to park on the side of the road and saw marked Olympia Police cars parked at the El Sarape restaurant where they were investigating an activated burglar alarm.
Harrison provided two breath samples into the Draeger breathalyzer system, measuring a .150 BrAC and a .147 BrAC. The legal limit in the state of Washington is 0.08.
Harrison was booked into the Olympia Jail for driving under the influence.
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