NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
March 16, 2008
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
DEPUTY INJURED IN CRASH
CAUSED BY DRUNK DRIVER
Scott Allen Brace
An Okaloosa County
Sheriff’s Deputy responding to a call was forced off State Road 85 south of
Crestview around six a.m. Sunday morning by a drunk driver heading northbound in
the southbound lanes.
Corporal Mark Raiche –
(pronounced Raysh) had to swerve to avoid a head-on collision with an SUV driven
by 33-year old Scott Allen Brace of 2948 Chantry Circle, Crestview. Corporal
Raiche suffered multiple injuries after his car left the roadway around the 22
mile marker and flipped four times. He was flown by medical helicopter to Sacred
Heart Hospital in Pensacola where he is currently in stable condition.
Investigators
say a man who witnessed the SUV heading the wrong direction and saw the
subsequent accident, was able to get the driver’s license tag number after the
man crossed back over the median into the northbound lanes and got in front of
him. Investigators traced the tag
number to Brace. He is now charged with DUI, causing a traffic crash with
serious injury and leaving the scene of an accident with injuries.
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