Woman is charged with DUI

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

Police charged a 40-year-old city woman with driving under the influence of alcohol after the car she was driving crashed into an East Lucius Avenue home.

Allison Whittaker was traveling east on the road at about 2:30 a.m. Friday when the car smashed through the front porch and was lodged under the west corner of the home at 540 E. Lucius Ave., police said.

Whittaker had two passengers, Jeremy Everhart, 27, and Bethany Hammell, 24, who both listed 540 East Lucius as their home address; the passengers were taken to ValleyCare Northside Medical Center, according to reports. Police said they were not seriously injured.

When officers arrived, they found Whittaker in the driver’s seat and noted in reports that she had slurred speech and the odor of alcohol. Police said Whittaker refused to leave the vehicle, so an officer used a stinger stun gun device between her shoulder blades and then she exited.

Whittaker told police she was too injured from the accident to perform any field sobriety tests, reports state. She was taken to ValleyCare Northside Medical Center and once there, refused to submit to any sobriety tests, police said.

The Youngstown fire department and a towing company were able to remove the car from the house.