Posted on 05/03/2022 2:41:42 PM PDT by Signalman
A Las Vegas man has been arrested by police after they say he was driving the wrong way on a central Las Vegas thoroughfare, causing a Sunday morning crash that seriously injured two people.
Demitri Gee, 33, was booked at the Clark County Detention Center early Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence causing substantial bodily harm, failure to stop at the scene of an accident, failure to driver properly on a divided roadway, no proof of insurance, and driving without a license.
A Las Vegas police arrest report for Gee states Gee was driving a 2016 Ram van “against the flow of travel,” headed southbound in the northbound lanes of University Center Drive towards Flamingo Road, at 6:14 a.m. when the van went through a red light and slammed into a Chevrolet Equinox. The female driver of the Chevrolet suffered a pulmonary contusion and a significant wound to her ankle. A male passenger in the Chevrolet had internal bleeding and underwent immediate surgery at Sunrise Hospital.
Police said Gee was then found “hiding in the bushes” near the Alta Ham Fine Arts building on the UNLV campus, not too far from the crash scene.
“I saw the male had watery eyes and significant swelling to the head above his left eye as well as a small scrape to his right elbow with dried blood…Gee’s speech appeared slurred and delayed,” police said in Gee’s arrest report.
Police alleged that Gee was impaired and took him to a nearby hospital to draw a blood sample. They also learned Gee was previously arrested in 2018 on a driving under the influence charge, police said
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We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.
Golly Gee, what were you thinking?!
“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.”
Jack Kerouac?
Man, he covered all the bases: driving under the influence, driving in the wrong direction, no license and no insurance.
Agreed.
Hunter S Thompson.
Hunter S Thompson
“Hunter S Thompson”
Speaking of Thompson, look for the 1980 movie “where The Buffalo Roam”. Bill Murray plays Thompson. A great movie. funny and weird.
It’s hard to find - but well worth it.
Was it also dark? Was he also wearing sunglasses?
(Gee was driving a 2016 Ram van)
Yeah. No kidding.
(Police said Gee was then found “hiding in the bushes”)
That’s a rough-looking 33
Why have DoT’s not chosen to lay down those one-way steel teeth devices that would stop anyone entering.
Is it speed ? Wrong way entering would generally be at a slow cornering speed and exiters not much faster.
I'm familiar with that building.
Fear and loathing in Los Vegas?
I think I’ll let him drive, the poor bastard will see them flying monkeys soon enough.
Golly GEE is at it again. Driving isn’t his thang.
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