water street crash toms river

Police said a woman who was driving drunk crashed a car into a boat in Toms River.

(Toms River Police Department)

TOMS RIVER – A Pennsylvania woman was arrested Tuesday after she was driving with a blood-alcohol content nearly three times the legal limit and crashed the car she was driving into a boat, police said.

Victoria Ventura, 57, was driving a Hyundai Santa Fe east on Water Street around 5:50 p.m. when she left the roadway on the right, police said. She went over a curb, through a utility pole and crashed into a pontoon boat that was being stored adjacent to the roadway, according to police.

Ventura was not injured in the crash. Her blood-alcohol level was determined to be .21 percent, police said.

Water Street is expected to be closed overnight in both directions for repairs to the utility pole and wires, police said. Sporadic power outages are also reported in the downtown.

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