GRAFTON TWP. — A 12-ounce Busch beer can sat on the roof of a wrecked Ford Crown Victoria straddling a ditch off state Route 57 south of Grafton on Saturday night.

Not far away, 67-year-old Donald McCurry of Grafton was locked in the back of a state trooper’s car while three of his passengers were loaded into ambulances.

“Another drunk driver,” Ohio Highway Patrol Trooper Christopher Ausse said. “He missed two telephone poles and got lucky, but there were four kids in his car while he was driving drunk. It’s pathetic.”

McCurry, who had large welts on his forehead, was charged with DUI after he refused medical treatment.

The children ranged in age from 10 to 14, two of them were taken to EMH Regional Medical Center along with a woman riding in the front passenger seat, patrol Sgt. Paul March said.

No one in the car was wearing a seat belt, but none of the injuries was life-threatening, Ausse said.

Trooper Shawn Kline said McCurry was heading south about 8:30 p.m. after a night at the 2008 Grafton Firemen’s Festival. Suddenly, McCurry veered right off the road and almost made it over a ditch into a farm field, he said.

“He said there was a mystery car that ran him off the road, but we don’t think there was,” Kline said. “There was nobody else around when we got here, at least.”

March said he overheard one of the children say she didn’t see any other car — and that she had no idea McCurry was drunk.

Contact Jason Hawk at 329-7148 or jhawk@chroniclet.com.

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