In the last issue of THE BEE we reported that the driver of a brand new Subaru Crosstrek had managed to avoid a row of newly-planted sidewalk trees while careening into the new Modera Woodstock apartment building at 4805 S.E. Woodstock Boulevard, on Sunday, September 13. We were there, and got a photo of the mishap. There’s a different one with this update.
Since then, we have learned more about that odd crash – and the story just gets much, much odder. A 61-year-old Happy Valley Elementary School counselor was the driver, and she had enough alcohol in her body at the time, doctors say, to have died. She did somehow survive, and now faces mounting legal trouble.
Newly-released court records identify the driver as 61-year-old Joni Lynn Clayton, who registered a staggering .556% blood-alcohol content – over seven times Oregon’s legal limit – and that was more than two hours after the crash, which caused an estimated $50,000 in structural damage…