SALYERSVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville woman is in jail, after police accused her of being intoxicated when she was involved in a fatal crash.
The crash happened just before 8 Friday evening on Route 114 in Magoffin County. When Kentucky State Police arrived, they found one of the drivers, Sarah Caitlyn Spurling, 33, sitting on the ground.
When a state trooper asked Spurling how the crash happened, she said she was driving and talking to her daughter on the phone. She said she looked away from the road briefly and when she looked back, a car driven by 64-year-old Roger Arnett, of Salyersville, had stopped in front of her. She said she tried to stop, but she ran into the back of Arnett’s vehicle and knocked it into the oncoming lane, where it was hit by another car.
Arnett was later pronounced dead at Paintsville ARH Hospital.
Spurling told police she had drunk one beer about five hours before the crash, but the officer noted she was lethargic and slurring her words, and there was a strong odor of alcohol coming from her. She refused a chemical test, but police obtained a search warrant for her blood.
She has now been charged with vehicular homicide, wanton endangerment and DUI. She is being held in the Big Sandy Regional Detention Center, in Paintsville.
