Crime & Safety
Truck Driver Charged with DUI after Spilling Load on Larkin: Police
Phillip Dula registered .256 on a Breathalyzer test, more than three times the legal limit, Crest Hill Deputy Police Chief Ed Clark said.
A semi-truck driver who drove off with people in the back of his truck and spilled two pallets of tools into Larkin Avenue was arrested on a DUI charge Monday night, Crest Hill Deputy Police Chief Ed Clark said.
Reports say Phillip G. Dula, 52, of Woodbridge, Va., was in the middle of delivering goods to the Harbor Freight store shortly before 10 p.m. when he climbed into the cab and drove away with workers still inside the truck, Clark said.
Store employees were able to stop Dula, but once the workers got out, Dula proceeded to drive around the Hillcrest Shopping Center parking lot at Larkin and Plainfield Road and then out onto Larkin, where merchandise fell out of the back of the truck and blocked the roadway, he said.
When police arrived, they noted that Dula was staggering so they took him to the police station for a field sobriety test, which he failed, Clark said. He also took a Breathalyzer test and registered .256 -- more than three times the legal blood alcohol content limit of .08
Dula admitted he had been drinking, he said.
"It's lucky he didn't kill someone," Clark said.
Dula was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, blood alcohol content over .08 and truck spilling load into roadway. He is being held in the Will County jail pending a bond hearing.
Store employees were able to stop Dula, but once the workers got out, Dula proceeded to drive around the Hillcrest Shopping Center parking lot at Larkin and Plainfield Road and then out onto Larkin, where merchandise fell out of the back of the truck and blocked the roadway, he said.
When police arrived, they noted that Dula was staggering so they took him to the police station for a field sobriety test, which he failed, Clark said. He also took a Breathalyzer test and registered .256 -- more than three times the legal blood alcohol content limit of .08
Dula admitted he had been drinking, he said.
"It's lucky he didn't kill someone," Clark said.
Dula was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, blood alcohol content over .08 and truck spilling load into roadway. He is being held in the Will County jail pending a bond hearing.
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