A 28-year-old man is facing charges for allegedly driving while impaired and crashing his car into a front yard last month south of Austin, injuring himself and a passenger.
Nicholas Louis-Helge Giovannetti, of rural Austin, is charged in Mower District Court with single counts of criminal vehicular operation resulting in bodily harm (a gross-misdemeanor) as well as fourth-degree driving while impaired and driving without a driver's license, both misdemeanors.
A criminal complaint was filed Tuesday with an arrest warrant for Giovannetti.
According to the complaint, Austin police and Mower County deputies went about 12:40 a.m. Oct. 14 to a vehicle crash with injuries in the 2900 block of Fourth Street Southeast in Austin Township.
Deputies found a severely damaged vehicle in the front yard of 2908 Fourth St. S.E., with its engine sitting in the residence's driveway and numerous car parts scattered around the yard.
Giovannetti, the car's owner, appeared injured and was standing by the car.
He was treated for unspecified injuries at Austin Medical Center. His 22-year-old passenger was treated and released.
Skid marks on the road started about 625 feet north of the vehicle's final resting spot, indicating it was traveling at a high rate of speed, the complaint says.
A similar impaired-driving crash occurred in May 2006 on the same stretch of Fourth Street Southeast. A 25-year-old man was seriously injured when his pickup truck left the roadway in the 2700 block of Fourth Street, vaulted off a driveway and landed on another driveway.
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