A man from Florissant was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated after the car he was driving allegedly struck two police officers, one a Festus resident, as they were checking on a vehicle on the side of I-70 on Saturday evening, Aug. 26.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported that the two officers, Andrew Hapgood, 27, of Festus and Benjamin Santoyo, 27, of St. Louis, were outside of their patrol vehicle and were checking on an abandoned vehicle on the right shoulder of eastbound I-70 west of Jennings Station Road in north St. Louis County at 8:23 p.m. when the 64-year-old driver of a 2003 Honda Accord reportedly lost control, ran off the right side of the road, hit the guardrail and then both officers.
Santoyo suffered serious injuries and Hapgood moderate injuries, according to the report, and both were taken by Northwest EMS to Barnes Jewish Hospital in St. Louis.
Updates on their conditions were not available.
No injury was reported for the driver of the Honda, who was arrested on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and causing the injury of another, the report said.
He will not be named unless he is charged with a crime.
He was wearing a seat belt, the report said. The Honda was damaged extensively, according to the report.