A 15-year-old boy suffered a broken leg in a car accident when a pickup truck, driven by a 50-year-old unemployed man who had been drinking, hit the minivan he was in; the man failed sobriety tests and was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and causing an accident, and was distraught about not knowing where his dog "Mabel" was after the crash.

1. DRIVER LOSES MABEL, FINDS JAIL
A fifteen-year-old boy was injured in a car accident when the minivan he was
traveling in was hit by a pickup truck at an intersection. The boy was taken to a nearby
hospital. The paramedics said that it appeared that the boy had nothing more serious
than a broken left leg, but that internal injuries were always a possibility. The boy was
conscious and alert. His mother, who was driving, was uninjured. She said that the truck
appeared out of nowhere, and she thought she was going to die. She turned the steering
wheel sharply to the left, and the truck hit her minivan on the passenger side.
The driver of the truck was a 50-year-old man who was unemployed and apparently
had been drinking—police found 18 empty beer cans inside the truck. The man denied
drinking, but he failed the police test for sobriety. When asked to touch his nose with his
arms outstretched and eyes closed, he was unable to touch any part of his head.
The handcuffed man asked the police if they knew where "Mabel" was as he was
put into the back seat of the police vehicle. The police asked him if Mabel was his wife.
He said, "She's my dog, my dog! Where's my baby?" A dog with a collar, but no
identification, was found minutes later, half a block away. The man was taken to the city
jail and booked on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and on causing an accident.