Man Indicted for Driving Drunk, Wrecking Car and Abandoning Passenger

He hit a vehicle head on while driving on Lexington Road, then walked away from his damaged Honda, leaving a critically injured passenger trapped inside the wreckage.

A Clarke County Grand Jury has indicted Andrew McGhee Porter, 45, on 15 felony counts of causing serious injury by vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident, driving without a license and operating a vehicle without insurance, according to a story in the Athens Banner Herald. The accident was in late December 2011.

Porter fled the accident scene but police later found him and took him to Athens Regional for treatment, the story says. Blood samples showed he was under the influence of both alcohol and marijuana during the wreck.

He left the hospital and the state and was picked up three months later in another state, the story says. His passenger was in a coma for five days after the wreck and suffered brain and liver damage, seizures and extensive internal bleeding. Porter passed a car turning onto Robert Hardeman Road and hit an oncoming vehicle, according to the story. 

Porter was initially indicted in April on five felony counts of causing serious injury by vehicle. The grand jury re-indicted him this week, adding 10 more counts, the story says. His last address, given in April, was in North Carolina.