Ashley Rookard of Cleveland OH Crazy and nasty drunk woman who endangers lives by driving the wrong way down a freeway! Cleveland OH
Cameras from the Ohio Department of Transportation recorded a car going the wrong way on I-480 just before 3 a.m. Monday morning. The Ohio Highway Patrol and North Olmsted police stopped the driver before anyone got hurt.
Now Ashley Rookard has been charged with driving drunk, reckless operation, and driving with a suspended license.
It happened in the wee hours of the morning, but 911 calls started pouring in to dispatchers.
One caller said, “There’s a car going the wrong way on 480, and it’s going westbound on the eastbound side.”
Cuyahoga County dispatchers quickly received 15 calls.
The I-Team reached the driver by phone. Rookard said she was “driving home from work.” And she added, “I think somebody slipped something in my drink while I was at work. I don’t have too much memory.”
She said she’d been driving from downtown, and she doesn’t know where she got on the highway.
She also called herself, “Lucky to be alive.”
A citation filed in court shows she had a blood alcohol level of .201 which is more than twice the legal limit.
This marks the latest in a series of recent wrong-way driver incidents on local highways.
3 Updates & Rebuttals
Alvarez
Miami Beach,United States
Hey Rick, mind your own d**n business!!!
#4Author of original report
Thu, May 21, 2020
Hey Rick, mind your own d**n business and stay out of matters that don't concern you!!!!
RICK
Alabama,United States
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#4Consumer Comment
Tue, May 12, 2020
Why is this even on this site? This is RIPOFF REPORT, not the police blotter of drunks. SMH.
Alvarez
Miami Beach,United States
Ashley Rookard is a menace to society and an accident waiting to happen!
#4Author of original report
Tue, May 12, 2020
NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio- The FOX 8 I-Team has obtained exclusive video showing what it took to stop a wrong-way driver on one of the area’s busiest highways.
Monday, the I-Team revealed what happened in the wee hours of the morning on 480. 911 calls started pouring in about a wrong-way driver.
Now, North Olmsted police have released video showing their encounter with the driver.
One camera shows a patrol car heading in the right direction with headlights shining back from the opposite direction.
An officer slowly brings his cruiser to a stop in front of the wrong-way driver. That car stops. But as the officer gets out on foot, the wrong-way driver makes a u-turn on the highway and takes off. You hear the officer on foot yell, “Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Stop. Stop!”
That sparked a short chase.
Then officers got the car to pull over.
You hear police say, “Turn the car off for me. Turn it off.” And, “You know how you ended up here? How you ended up going the wrong way?” The driver said no, and she said she had been coming from a nightspot downtown.
The Ohio State Highway Patrol tested the driver, Ashley Rookard of Parma. A trooper found she had been driving drunk at more than twice the legal limit.
Traffic cameras didn’t pick up where that driver first got on the highway going the wrong way. Later, by phone, she told the I-Team she had left work downtown. She claims someone slipped something into her drink, so she can’t remember much about how this happened.
This, just the latest in a series of wrong-way drivers caught on camera on area highways.
Police said a wrong-way driver caused a recent crash on I-90 that left three people dead.
Ashley Rookard also said she feels lucky to be alive after this.
Clearly, this latest case could have been deadly.
Officers can be heard on the video saying, “But she’s hammered.” And, “She’s a wreck. Like, ‘Really? I was going the wrong way?’”
Rookard has been charged with driving drunk, reckless operation and driving with a suspended license.
Her driving record shows she has other traffic convictions in her past including one for driving with no license.