After a driver called in three times to report an erratic driver on I-69, a deputy located the vehicle at State Road 45 and arrested a Solsberry man who has now been charged with operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

Daniel Scott Hash, 30, Solsberry, was arrested by Sgt. Bobby Pierce of the Greene County Sheriff’s Department early Saturday, February 15.

Hash was booked in before 7 a.m. that Saturday with bond set at $4,000 surety with ten percent cash allowed. He posted $400 and was released later the same day.

Hash was scheduled to appear in Greene Superior Court today, February 27, but he retained a Bloomington attorney and the defense filed a waiver of the hearing.

Hash has been charged with:

Operating a vehicle while intoxicated endangering a person, a Class A misdemeanor,
Operating a vehicle while intoxicated, a Class C misdemeanor, and
Operating a vehicle with an alcohol concentration equivalent to .15 or more, a Class A misdemeanor.

Sgt. Pierce was dispatched after a driver called in about a small four-door passenger car northbound on I-69 in Daviess County, headed toward Greene County. The caller said the car was driving erratically and had almost wrecked.

The caller called back two more times, once saying the car was going from lane to lane, almost running off the highway. Another time, the caller said the car was parked off the side of the road and may have hit a guardrail.

When Sgt. Pierce arrived in the area, he located the vehicle at the State Road 45 exit off I-69, swerving at a slow rate of speed on the exit ramp. At the stop sign at SR 45, the vehicle drove through the stop sign then stopped halfway onto SR 45. Sgt. Pierce said the vehicle had sparks flying from the front passenger side, an indication of a blown tire.

Daniel Hash was the driver of a purple 2009 Chevrolet Cobalt. Sgt. Pierce reported Hash had slurred speech and bloodshot glassy eyes and he noticed a strong odor of alcohol.

Hash allegedly admitted he had been drinking at a bar in Bedford and was on his way home but didn’t know where he was and was lost.

Hash allegedly failed standard field sobriety tests on the scene then failed them again at the sheriff’s department. Sgt. Pierce said Hash tested with an alcohol concentration of .17 on a certified chemical test. The legal limit is .08.