La Pine Man Jailed After DUII FS Road Crash
A La Pine man whose speeding minivan — with four children inside — flipped on a Forest Service road Monday night fled the scene when deputies arrived, but soon returned and was arrested on DUII and other charges, authorities said. Three youngsters were unhurt but the fourth was admitted to a Bend hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, they said.
Deschutes County sheriff?s deputies and a Forest Service law enforcement officer responded about 8:40 p.m. to a report of a single-vehicle rollover on Forest Service Road 44 near the spur road, about six miles south of Pringle Falls, said sheriff?s Lt. Chad Davis and Deputy Jeremiah Johnson in a news release.
When law enforcement arrived, the driver, identified as Davin Wayne Davis, 30, of La Pine, ran from the scene, leaving his children behind, they said. Davis returned to the scene a short time later and was arrested on DUII and other charges.
The children were identified as three girls, 13 10 and 8, and a 2-year-old boy. Sunriver medics responded to the scene, and while three of the children were unhurt, all were taken to St. Charles Medical Center-Bend, since there was no other parent available at the crash, deputies said. One child — deputies did not say which — was admitted to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
An investigation by patrol deputies, assisted by sheriff?s detectives, determined that Davis was driving a black 1999 Toyota Sienna minivan down the gravel forest road at a high rate of speed when he lost control and the van left the road, rolled and came to rest on its top, deputies said.
The children were able to remove themselves from the minivan and were helped at the scene by friends of the family.
Davis was taken to the county jail in Bend and lodged on charges of second-degree assault, DUII, failure to perform the duties of a driver when a person is injured (hit and run), four counts of reckless endangering another person and reckless driving. He remained at the jail Tuesday morning, held on $70,000.
