Drunk Ogle County man launches car into fence, telephone pole: police

MT. MORRIS, Ill. (WTVO) — An Oregon man was hospitalized Tuesday after crashing into a fence and telephone pole while driving drunk, according to police.

The Ogle County Sheriff reported that deputies were called to the 1200 block of N. Ridge Road around 9 p.m. for reports of a crash.

Investigators determined that Abdelhalim Khoga, 37, of Oregon, was driving southbound and failed to negotiate the curve, hitting the ditch and metal culvert, becoming airborne, overturning, colliding with a fence and then a telephone pole…

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