Police: Drunk Man Drove Wrong Way on Interstate 80, Collided with Construction Vehicles

A Dike man was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated after he drove allegedly drove the wrong way into a construction zone and collided with a parked construction vehicles and a steel support structure.

According to an Iowa City Police criminal complaint, on May 26 at 9:51 p.m., Gregory Alan Mason, 48, of Dike was driving on Interstate 80 when he began going the wrong way (west bound) in the East Bound lane of a construction zone. Mason allegedly was driving between the temporary concrete barriers that separated lanes of traffic and the steel structure where the permanent concrete barriers were set to be erected, according to the complaint.

Mason then collided with two vehicles that were "properly parked in the construction zone" also hitting the steel structure and damaging it in several places. 

Upon his arrest, Mason allegedly admitted to drinking alcohol prior to being transported away from the scene by the Johnson County Ambulance. At the hospital he was read his implied consent rights, according to the complaint, but Mason still consented to a blood draw for alcohol testing. Blood-alcohol content from this test indicated a rating of .152 when the test was completed.

Mason was booked in the Johnson County Jail on Monday morning and released three hours later. He was charged with first-offense operating while intoxicated, a serious misdemeanor.