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ELKINS A Randolph County woman is behind bars after she allegedly almost crashed into a West Virginia State Trooper and struck another vehicle while driving intoxicated with a child in her vehicle.
Maria M. Romo is being charged with a felony count of DUI with bodily injury. According to a criminal complaint filed in Randolph County Magistrate Court, on Jan. 18, Randolph County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. B.A. Talkington was traveling north on Route 219/250 near Colonial Mill Works when a red Honda Accord, heading south, came around the turn at a high rate of speed.
“The vehicle spun sideways in the roadway and crossed the center line. I steered my cruiser toward the ditch to avoid a collision,” Talkington writes in the complaint. “The vehicle slid past me and struck the vehicle directly behind me. I initiated my emergency lights and turned around. I found the defendant … unconscious laying across the center console with her feet still under the