According to the Town of Chesterton-
Motorist charged with OWI after driving through scale house on I94 just east of Chesterton
A motorist was arrested Saturday night, Jan. 18, after driving through the scale house serving eastbound I-94, located just east of the Ind. 49 exit, the Indiana State Police is reporting.
According to the ISP, the motorist drove her 2022 Chevrolet “through the entrance to the scale house at a high rate of speed,” “struck the metal entrance gate,” then “continued through the scale lanes, colliding with several street signs and light poles,” before coming to rest “on the bypass lane of the scale house against the metal guard rail.”
“Debris from the crash shattered the windows to the scale house,” the ISP noted. “Damage to the light poles, signs, and scale house is estimated at several thousand dollars.”
The driver, a 28-year-old Chicago resident, advised investigators that she was “attempting to drive home” but was in fact eastbound on I-94, not westbound, the ISP said.
The driver was transported to the Porter County Jail.
Photos and story courtesy of the Town of Chesterton.