A night at Fort Myers Beach apparently did not end the way anyone planned, and a Lehigh Acres woman is now facing serious criminal charges after her drive home took a very wrong turn. According to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, Brooke Hirsch allegedly drove a rental car directly into a Fort Myers residence in the early hours of Thursday morning. Nobody was hurt, but one household definitely woke up to a rude surprise.
Hirsch reportedly told deputies she had been making her way home from Fort Myers Beach when she fell asleep at the wheel. That explanation might have carried a little more weight if she had not also admitted to drinking earlier in the night. Deputies conducted field sobriety exercises, and the results were not in her favor. She was determined to be under the influence.
This is the kind of story that almost writes itself. A rental car, a beach night out, a house that was just minding its own business at some ungodly hour, and a driver who apparently thought the couch at home could wait. The good news, and it is genuinely good news, is that no one inside the home was injured…