In her first public comments since a Thanksgiving Day DUI arrest and crash, Hollie Strano said on social media that she is working on sobriety and healing.
The WKYC anchor and meteorologist, who has been off air since the incident, was lucky not to seriously hurt herself or anyone else when she flipped and crashed her SUV on Peninsula Rd. in November while driving 70 mph in a 35 mph zone with a 0.244 BAC.
“I am deeply remorseful for what happened the evening of November 23, 2023,”
she wrote on Instagram Tuesday morning
. “As tragic as it was and as cliche as it may sound, I believe that had to happen to me to put me on this healing journey of sobriety and introspection.”
Strano pleaded guilty to a single OVI charge in Cuyahoga Falls Mayors Court and was handed a year-long license suspension, a $375 fine plus court costs, and ordered to participate in six-day driver intervention program.
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She avoided jail time and the other two original charges , a marked lane violation and a “super” DUI charge, were dropped.