Crime & Safety
3 Injured In 3 DUI-Related Crashes In 3 Days: Rohnert Park Police
A Novato man, a Petaluma man and a Rohnert Park woman were arrested in the suspected DUI incidents, police said.
ROHNERT PARK, CA — A Novato man was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of driving while intoxicated — the third such arrest in Rohnert Park in which a driver was arrested for DUI causing injury, police said.
Officers responded about 6:10 p.m. Saturday to a report of a two-vehicle collision on Southwest Boulevard at Almond Avenue. Police were told one of the drivers subsequently set an open can of alcohol down along the curb.
Police said 42-year-old Eddie Rogers of Novato made a left turn in his Nissan Titan from Southwest Boulevard into the path of a Nissan Rogue into the path of a Nissan Rogue driven by a 42-year-old woman. The woman was taken to a nearby hospital, police said.
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Rogers was booked into the Sonoma County Jail on suspicion of misdemeanor DUI causing injury.
Saturday's collision in Rohnert Park was that city's third in three days in which one driver was arrested for DUI, and another had to be hospitalized.
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On Friday, 26-year-old Casandra Harden of Rohnert Park was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI causing serious injury and hit-and-run causing serious injury after a crash in front of Food Maxx on Rohnert Park Expressway. The other driver was hospitalized, and the bail for Harden was set at $100,000, police said.
On Thursday, 40-year-old Luis Ordonez Gumercindo of Petaluma was arrested on suspicion of DUI causing injuries and felony hit-and-run after a collision on Rohnert Park Expressway at the U.S. Highway 101 off-ramp, according to Rohnert Park police.
— Bay City News Service; Patch local editor Maggie Avants contributed to this report.
