WINONA, Minn. – The woman was out of it, slumped over the steering wheel. Her engine was running, her transmission engaged in the drive gear. This was about 3:05 a.m. in the 50 block of Winona Street under the Mississippi River bridge. Police wakened Allison Joyce Swiggum, 27, of Utica, and asked her to get out of vehicle – after telling her, of course, to turn off the engine and put the transmission in park. It wasn’t easy standing up. Police said she stumbled through standard field sobriety tests. Officers said she smelled of alcohol. Her eyes were bloodshot and watery. She admitted drinking. She declined medical attention and said was doing fine. Her blood tested at 0.13% alcohol – 1-1/2 times the amount that the law allows to drive. .She was written up for drunken driving and released to a sober adult.
