By Susan Weich
March 24, 2014
STL
LINCOLN COUNTY • A Florissant woman was arrested Friday after police say she was driving drunk and smashed into a utility pole while she had four young children in her car.
Brittany M. Brownell, 25, of the 1300 block of Del Rey Drive, was charged with four counts of endangering the welfare of a child, one count of property damage and misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.
One of the children was Brownell’s, and the the other three were her nieces and nephews, police said.
Police arrived on the scene of the crash on Kiethly Road near Big Oak Drive at 12:13 p.m. Brownell had been driving east in a black Ford Escort when she traveled across the road and struck a utility pole with such force that it broke off just above the ground. The pole had live wires that were on the car, police said.