A New Jersey woman was arrested in Nevada County Friday night for allegedly driving under the influence and crashing her vehicle into an embankment, causing bodily injury to a female passenger in the car.
Following the crash, local bystanders reportedly observed the driver, Abigail Ralph, running naked at a nearby field where children were playing.....
“She was on (Lysergic acid diethylamide,)” said Borba. “She was experiencing rapid emotional shifts to the extreme... She was very nice and almost loving one moment, and then almost completely violent the next.”
According to Borba, around 6 p.m. Friday, Ralph, 26, was....in a 2004 Toyota Tacoma and lost control after attempting to take a right turn....
The vehicle ran off the roadway and flipped over into an embankment. Ralph then reportedly exited the vehicle, took her clothes off and was observed running naked “in a state of hysteria,” at a nearby field where children from a Christian youth camp were playing softball.
Borba said Nevada County Sheriff deputies were called after bystanders had detained and clothed Ralph. Deputies then took her back to the scene of the crash where she was arrested.
“When I arrived she was located in the back of a sheriff’s vehicle, she was handcuffed,” Borba said. “Her passenger was being loaded into an ambulance with injuries to her face and arm, and a possible concussion, and was transported to (Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital).”
Ralph admitted that she and her female passenger were at the Yuba River around noon Friday, and licked a piece of paper laced with LSD, also known as acid, a psychedelic hallucinogenic drug.....
“Because this was all based out of a collision and that she was driving while under the influence of a drug, I arrested her,” said Borba. “She wasn’t even aware she was in a collision...
Ralph was booked around 9:30 p.m. Friday, and is charged with felony DUI causing bodily injury, and driving a vehicle without a valid California license.