CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland man pleaded guilty on Thursday in a drunken-driving crash that resulted in a two truck driver’s leg being amputated.
Roy Hollingsworth, 35, pleaded guilty to aggravated vehicular assault, driving under the influence and drug possession charges in the March 18 crash on Lorain Road near West 204th Street.
He is set to be sentenced Dec. 14 in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court Judge Deborah Turner’s courtroom.
The crash happened about 4 a.m., after a Fairview Park police officer called for a tow truck for a disabled car, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley’s office said in a release.
Hollingsworth was headed west on Lorain Road. He struck the tow truck as the Patton’s Five Star Towing employee was loading the disabled car onto the tow truck, prosecutors said.
The force of the collision crumbled the truck’s ramp, which fell on top of the tow truck driver’s leg, prosecutors said. He was rushed to a local hospital, where doctors amputated his leg, prosecutors said.
A urine sample taken when Hollingsworth was hospitalized after the crash showed he had a urine-alcohol content of 0.238 grams by weight of alcohol per 100 mL of urine, according to court records. The legal limit for driving is 0.11 grams, according to the Ohio Revised Code.
He also tested positive for cocaine and marijuana, records say.
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