Crime & Courts

Wasilla ATV driver arrested for DUI after injury crash

Alaska State Troopers investigating an ATV collision in Wasilla -- which sent one man to an Anchorage hospital Wednesday night -- arrested another man for driving a four-wheeler under the influence.

Troopers said in a Thursday dispatch they responded to the crash on Preston Avenue at about 6:45 p.m. Wednesday. Two Wasilla residents, 36-year-old Eric Schmidt and 44-year-old Jimmy Lampley, had been driving ATVs at the scene.

"Investigation found (Schmidt) was driving a four-wheeler on the roadway and crashed," troopers wrote. "Schmidt was transported to the Providence Alaska Medical Center with injury."

Troopers spokeswoman Beth Ipsen said Thursday that how Schmidt's ATV crashed remains under investigation. At the time of the crash, both he and Lampley were riding their four-wheelers together in the roadway; Schmidt was not wearing a helmet.

"He was transported to (Mat-Su Regional Medical Center) via ambulance and then flown to (Providence) by an air ambulance helicopter," Ipsen wrote.

Lampley was arrested for DUI after troopers found he had been driving drunk and had violated conditions of his parole. He was taken to the Mat-Su Pretrial Facility, where he was held without bail.

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