BEDFORD – A Bedford man was arrested early Friday morning after Bedford Police officers responded to Ace Pawn on 5th Street after a report of an accident.
When police arrived at 3:26 a.m. they found the vehicle a 2013 Fiat 500 blocking the eastbound lane of 5th Street, unoccupied and that the vehicle had struck a utility pole.
While on the scene a second male, arrived and informed an officer a male in an IU shirt had approached him as he was unloading his truck and asked to use his phone. The man told the officer that the man using his phone was attempting to call his grandparents but was unable to make contact with them so he continued walking east and was “screaming for help.”
Officers searched for the man, who they suspected was the driver. Officers found 21-year-old Trevyne Stiles at his parent’s house on F Street. Stiles was wearing an IU shirt.
Police say Stiles was intoxicated. Stiles told police he had fallen asleep while driving. He said he yelled for help but after realizing he was close to his grandparents, he ran as fast as he could “so nobody would get hurt.” He denied being in an accident.
Stiles was asked if he had been drinking and he said he had “enough”.
Stiles failed several field sobriety tests and blew a 0.13 on a preliminary breath test.
Stiles was detained and transported to IU Health Bedford Hospital for a blood draw. Those results are pending. He was then transported to jail on charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated, OWI endangerment, and leaving the scene of an accident.
The vehicle was inventoried and removed from the crash scene by Jackson’s Heavy Haul.
