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By Sophia Voravong
A Lafayette man is suspected of driving drunk and causing a two-car crash that seriously injured a Subaru of Indiana Automotive employee just after he left the plant early Friday.
David Osadchuk, 31, who recently moved here from Evansville, was being treated in the intensive care unit at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis for a possible broken leg and internal injuries.
The other driver, Juventino "Jose" Castillo, was arrested on suspicion of operating a vehicle while intoxicated causing serious bodily injury.
A blood test showed he had a blood-alcohol content of 0.218 percent an hour after the wreck, according to a probable cause affidavit to get blood and urine samples.
The legal limit to drive in Indiana is 0.08 percent.
Officials also found evidence of marijuana in his urine, according to the affidavit.
The crash was reported about 3:36 a.m. on Indiana 38 East just outside of the SIA plant. The Lafayette Metro Fatal Alcohol Crash Team closed the four-lane highway for several hours to investigate.
Sgt. Max Smith of the Lafayette Police Department said Castillo, who was driving a 1999 Dodge Durango west on Indiana 38 East, ran a red traffic light near SIA's east entrance.
Osadchuk had just turned west from there on a green traffic light.
The Durango's right, front end crashed into the left, rear end of Osadchuk's 2000 Chevrolet Cavalier -- pushing the small car about 300 feet and causing it to spin into a ditch along the north side of the road, Smith said.
The Durango flipped over before landing in the grass median.
Lafayette firefighters had to cut the Cavalier's roof to remove Osadchuk from the vehicle.
A witness told investigators the Durango was going well above the posted speed limit of 55 mph, but Smith could not provide an approximate speed.
SIA spokeswoman Ann McConnell said Osadchuk started working at SIA in mid-June in the plant's body shop. He was working overtime hours overnight Friday and had gotten off work at 3:30 a.m.
She said SIA had recently offered full-time jobs to temporary workers at a Toyota manufacturing plant in Princeton, near Osadchuk's hometown of Evansville.
Osadchuk is believed to be among that group, she said.
Both Castillo and his passenger, Justin Ashby, 24, of Lafayette, were treated at Lafayette hospitals for minor injuries and released.
Castillo is being held in the Tippecanoe County Jail on a $10,000 surety bond.
He told paramedics that he had been drinking earlier in the evening at a West Lafayette bar, according to a separate probable cause affidavit filed Friday afternoon in Tippecanoe Circuit Court.
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