DUI charges after car hits house

DEWEY BEACH, Del. (AP) - August 6, 2009 It happened early Thursday on Coastal Highway.

Twenty-three-year-old Richard Walls of Bear is also charged with first-degree reckless endangering and other offenses. He is being held in lieu of $8,502 cash bail.

Sgt. Clifford Dempsey, a Dewey Beach police spokesman, said officers saw Walls' vehicle traveling about 80 to 90 mph.

Dempsey said Walls failed to negotiate a curve and the car began skidding. It went onto the shoulder, became airborne and landed in a parking lot, where it continued backward.

The car stopped when it hit a van and a house.

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Information from: The (Wilmington, Del.) News Journal, http://www.delawareonline.com

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