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A head-on collision between two vehicles Thursday evening in Orchard Park resulted in a Derby woman being charged with driving while intoxicated and sent both drivers to the hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, Orchard Park police reported.
Diane Kester, 49, failed to keep her vehicle on the right side of California Road, near Ellis Road, shortly before 7:15 p.m. Thursday, police said. Her vehicle collided with the other one. Air bags deploy in both vehicles.
Orchard Park Police arrested a 45-year-old man on a felony drunken driving charge and violating Leandra’s Law because a child was in the vehicle.
Police said officers stopped Burke W. Forster of Orchard Park on California Road Friday night because his vehicle had expired out-of-state plates. After submitting to a breath test, Forster was subsequently arrested on a DWI charge because the test revealed his blood-alcohol content was .15 percent, almost twice the legal limit.
Because Forster was convicted of DWI in 2011, the DWI charge was upgraded to a felony, police said.