Gwinnett Daily Post

BUFORD -- Police have charged a woman in a drunken crash after leaving a downtown Buford bar that seriously injured another woman, officials said.

Wendy O'Donovan, 33, was booked Wednesday at the Gwinnett County Jail on charges of serious injury by vehicle, improper lane change and DUI. She's being held on $33,400 bond.

O'Donovan reportedly told Gwinnett police that she'd consumed "way too much to be driving" during hospital interviews after the single-vehicle crash, which happened just before midnight Saturday on Buford Highway near Sawnee Avenue. She'd left 37 Main bar in a 2004 Ford Ranger before the crash, according to an arrest warrant.

The truck O'Donovan was driving veered off the highway, rolled once and struck a tree at the passenger-side door. The passenger, Darla Dobbs, 30, of Gainesville, was transported to Northeast Georgia Regional Medical Center with serious injuries, while Dobbs went to Gwinnett Medical Center, a Gwinnett police accident report states.

An officer checking on Dobbs' status this week "determined she had sustained serious injury and remained unconscious," the report states.

The extent of Dobbs' injuries was unknown Thursday. A hospital spokesperson said records show Dobbs was no longer there but could provide no further information.

A phone call on Thursday afternoon to a number listed for Dobbs in Gainesville was not answered.

O'Donovan consented to a blood test at the hospital, and those results are pending, the report states.