Huber OVI suspect ‘oblivious to the world’

UPDATE @ 9:20 p.m. March 15:

A 69-year-old man was reportedly so intoxicated Saturday police couldn’t administer a Breathalyzer test, and jail staff couldn’t take a booking photo, according to police and jail officials.

Richard Rounds was released Sunday from the Montgomery County Jail, where he was booked on suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, open container of alcohol in a motor vehicle and numerous other traffic offenses, according to Huber Heights police and online jail records.

Rounds allegedly crashed his red sport-utility vehicle twice into a bridge on Shull Road and continued to drive his heavily damaged SUV — which had a missing tire — headed the wrong way. Officers caught up to Rounds near Deer Haven Road, but he didn’t pull over for nearly two blocks, according to a Huber Heights police memo.

“He was not fleeing, driving at only 23 mph, he was just so intoxicated he did not know the police were there,” the memo stated.

Rounds’ SUV was impounded. He is scheduled to appear in court Tuesday.

FIRST REPORT, March 14:

Police said a 69-year-old man was highly intoxicated as he drove his red sport-utility vehicle through Huber Heights Saturday afternoon.

The driver, Richard Rounds, had an open container of whiskey and cola when he was stopped on Shull Road, according to a Huber Heights police sergeant.

Officers caught up to the 2012 Ford Escape as it was traveling with a flat tire going the wrong way into oncoming traffic.

The driver allegedly crashed twice into the bridge on Shull Road and struck the median on Brandt Pike numerous times before he was stopped.

A police sergeant said Rounds seemed “oblivious to the world,” and didn’t realize what he was doing.

He was booked into the Montgomery County Jail on suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated in addition to other traffic violations.