IC man injured, arrested for OWI after allegedly hitting parked cars early Saturday morning

Lang
5/1/21

Allegedly crashing his car into two parked vehicles had led to the arrest of an Iowa City man.

Iowa City Police were called to the 900 block of East Jefferson Street just after 2am Saturday for an injured man who had driven into two other vehicles. Investigators determined that 23-year-old Adam Kirkey of Thunder Gulch Road had injured his hand after he crashed his 2007 Chrysler Sebring into a pair of parked vehicles.

Police say Kirkey showed multiple signs of intoxication, admitted to drinking, showed impairment on field sobriety tests and admitted that he should not be driving. He scored a .195% blood alcohol content on a Datamatser test.

Kirkey is charged with Operating While Intoxicated.