Crime & Safety
Photos: Man Driving Drunk Crashes into Tree with Young Daughter in Car
The following arrest information was supplied by the Stow Police Department. It does not indicate a conviction.
A Garfield Heights man was arrested and charged for drunk driving after crashing into a tree with his four-year-old daughter in the car June 12.
Abram Brandon Russell Stransky, 23, was charged for child endangerment, an OVI, criminal mischief, a hit-skip and failure to control — all misdemeanor charges.
Stransky refused a breathalyzer test, according to .
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Officers responded to a call about an accident on Mac Drive at 3:36 a.m. Stransky’s car hit a tree so hard that it was uprooted and the front end of his car was totaled.
After crashing, the driver left the scene of the accident with his four-year-old daughter and walked down the road.
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After searching Mac Drive, police found the driver and his daughter down the road from the accident, according to the report. Police said the four-year-old had a cut on her head because of the crash.
Stransky has a pre-trial scheduled at the in front of Judge Kim Hoover June 21.
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