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One teen from Gresham, Oregon, gets double points for recklessness and ungentlemanly behavior, following this week’s crash that saw him total his car and abandon his female passenger at the scene.
Yes, the teen was high on marijuana and yes, even after his female friend ratted out on him to the police, he still maintained he wasn’t the driver. Eventually, 19-year-old Julio Bautista-Montella owned up to what he’d done and he’s been kept in custody since, Oregon Live reports.
At the time of the crash, Bautista-Montella was doing 80mph in a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass with a female passenger. They both had attended a party where they’d smoked pot, and Bautista-Montella was also filming himself for a Snapchat post: he wanted to show off while driving at high speeds. For the record, the speed limit in the area where the crash happened is 25 mph.
Bautista-Montella lost control of the car and hit a parked semi. He then got out and walked for about a mile, before hailing a ride with another driver and telling them that he’d been involved in an accident as a backseat passenger. He left his injured passenger trapped inside the Cutlass: first responders had to cut her out of it.
She called 911 and predictably didn’t cover for Bautista-Montella when police asked her what had happened. Police eventually tracked him down at a local hospital, but he denied being at the wheel. He owned up to it right before the results of the blood test came in.
“Police reported Bautista-Montella’s urine testing positive for marijuana and finding video of the crash and his speedometer on his cellphone,” the report notes.
He is now being held in custody and faces charges of “second-degree assault, driving under the influence of intoxicants, failure to perform the duties of a driver, reckless driving and reckless endangering,” the publication adds.
At the time of the crash, Bautista-Montella was doing 80mph in a 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass with a female passenger. They both had attended a party where they’d smoked pot, and Bautista-Montella was also filming himself for a Snapchat post: he wanted to show off while driving at high speeds. For the record, the speed limit in the area where the crash happened is 25 mph.
Bautista-Montella lost control of the car and hit a parked semi. He then got out and walked for about a mile, before hailing a ride with another driver and telling them that he’d been involved in an accident as a backseat passenger. He left his injured passenger trapped inside the Cutlass: first responders had to cut her out of it.
She called 911 and predictably didn’t cover for Bautista-Montella when police asked her what had happened. Police eventually tracked him down at a local hospital, but he denied being at the wheel. He owned up to it right before the results of the blood test came in.
“Police reported Bautista-Montella’s urine testing positive for marijuana and finding video of the crash and his speedometer on his cellphone,” the report notes.
He is now being held in custody and faces charges of “second-degree assault, driving under the influence of intoxicants, failure to perform the duties of a driver, reckless driving and reckless endangering,” the publication adds.
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