WINONA, Minn. – Police figured they had found a hit-and-run driver when they traced the suspected car to a residential driveway on the West End. One wheel was missing – just like the wheel ripped off in the hit-and-run impact three blocks away. This was about 12:45 a.m. At the address Daniel Allen Lyke Jr., 24, admitted to having drunk whiskey sours. Officers asked Lyke how drunk he felt. He said three on a 10-point scale. Lyke’s guesstimate seemed a low, police said: His speech was heavily slurred, his eyes bloodshot and watery, his balance poor – and his breath smelled of alcohol A breath test showed his blood-alcohol at 0.27%, roughly 3-1/12 times the legal intoxication threshold. Lyke showed minor cuts apparently from the accident – a cut lip — before being charged. The crash, into a parked and unoccupied car, was near Fifth and South Baker streets. The arrest was near Fifth and John streets. Police were scratching their heads how the car could have been driven three blocks on only three wheels.
