Dilworth woman arrested for driving on emergency dike
March 30, 2009
A Dilworth women was arrested before midnight Sunday in Fargo for driving on an emergency dike.
Fargo police arrested a 49 year old Dilworth woman after she drove her van along side the dike at Lindenwood Drive on 17th Avenue South until the road was completely covered by the dike. The woman then attempted to drive on to the top of the dike, but was unable to make it to the top of the dike with her van.
The woman was stopped by Cass County Sheriff personnel who observed the woman while patrolling the dike. The held the woman at the scene until Fargo police officers arrived.
Engineers examined the dike and determined it had not been damaged.
Fargo police Captain Tod Dahle said that had the woman made it over the dike, she would have very likely ended up in the icy water of the Red River.
“The likelihood of serious injury or death was pretty high,” he said. “You wouldn’t last very long in that water right now.”
The Dilworth woman was arrested for drunken driving and for operating a vehicle on the dike.
