A wife and mother of four is dead after her truck plunged over the side of Hardy Toll Road. Investigators believe that the accident was caused by a drunk driver.
The victim is 44-year-old Cheryl Guberman. Guberman was on her way to pick up her son at the airport when the accident occurred. The accident took place late on Thursday May 28th.
Guberman’s Dodge Dakota fell twenty feet from the southbound lane of the toll road, landing in a ditch.
The driver accused of causing Guberman’s death is 51-year-old Pamela Pugh. At 11:30 p.m., Pugh called police to report a car accident. She claimed a driver cut her off, forcing her into a wall. Pugh did not tell the police about the woman in the ditch, and the police did not observe the vehicle on their own.
Guberman’s husband and son found Cheryl at around 2 a.m. on Friday morning. The two went looking for her after she did not show up at the airport. Police were immediately called to the scene. The front bumper of Pugh’s car, with the license plate attached, was found in the ditch next to Guberman’s truck.
Pugh was arrested at the scene of the accident on suspicion of DWI. The charge will likely be upgraded to intoxicated manslaughter.
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