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Two small children were flown to Primary Children's Hospital in critical condition Friday after a woman accused of driving drunk crashed into the car in which they were riding.
The woman was driving her Toyota Camry the wrong way down a one-way section of 21st Street in Ogden about 11:35 a.m. when she crashed head-on into a Chrysler sedan carrying three small children — an infant boy, a 5-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl, according to Ogden Police.
The children were all in the backseat of the car, secured in child car seats, as a 32-year-old woman drove. Neither the driver nor the infant were hospitalized — investigator said they were treated and released at the scene — but as of late Saturday, the two girls remained in critical condition at Primary Children's.
The 59-year-old driver was arrested and booked into the Weber County Jail about 8 p.m. Friday on suspicion of two counts of felony DUI causing serious bodily injury and two counts of misdemeanor DUI, operating the wrong way in traffic and drug charges.
According to police, a preliminary alcohol-blood test indicated the driver had more than three times the legal limit of .08.
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