Crash Leads to Arrest of Sunrise Beach Woman

A single vehicle crash in Miller County sends one woman to the hospital after the 1978 Chevrolet Bonanza truck she was driving crashes on Highway 242. According to Lake Ozark Police, 45 year old Donna Brown of Sunrise Beach was on route 242 about 3/10ths of a mile west of Stanton Drive traveling at a high rate of speed when she ran off the right side of the roadway, struck a curb, went airborne and impacted with a rock embankment while skidding fifty feet sideways before coming to rest in a grass section of the roadway. Brown was taken to a lake area hospital for medical treatment for injuries inflicted during the crash. Shortly after she was placed under arrest for DWI then was transported to a Columbia hospital for long term treatment of her injuries. The truck was a total loss and was towed from the scene.