Man was twice legal limit when he injured 2 in high-speed crash on Biscayne Boulevard, cops say

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MIAMI – A Miami man is facing four felony charges after police said he was drunken behind the wheel when he caused a high-speed, head-on crash along Biscayne Boulevard in the city’s Morningside neighborhood in mid-November, seriously injuring himself and two other people.

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Miami police arrested Juan Antonio Napoles Perez, 31, of Little Haiti, after he surrendered on Friday. They said the crash happened just before 5:30 a.m. on Nov. 17.

According to an arrest report, witnesses told police that Napoles Perez was driving north at what they thought was more than 100 mph in a Honda Civic near Northeast 55th Terrace Sunday morning.

Napoles Perez hit a raised curb “and went onto the center median with enough velocity to uproot shrubbery and slice through” four palm trees, the report states. His vehicle then went into the southbound lanes and hit a Volkswagen Jetta head-on.

The report states that medics took Napoles Perez and two victims inside of the Jetta to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition.

One of the victims was “immediately rushed into surgery with uncontrollable internal bleeding” and remained in the hospital as of Friday.

Authorities said they couldn’t obtain information from the vehicle’s “black box” event data recorder because it was so badly damaged in the wreck.

They were, however, able to obtain a blood sample — and results returned Dec. 6 revealed that Napoles Perez had a blood alcohol content of 0.167% after arriving at the hospital, more than twice the legal limit.

Napoles is facing two counts of DUI causing serious bodily injury and two counts of reckless driving causing serious injury.

The Cuban national was being held in the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on a $200,000 bond as of Monday morning.


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