A woman who drove the wrong way on Interstate 70 two weeks ago and triggered a crash that killed her and another driver was at three times the DUI threshold.
The blood-alcohol content of 26-year-old Heydi Margarita Hau Chi was 0.246, according to a Wheat Ridge Police Department investigative report. A reading of 0.08 is enough to convict someone of a drinking-and-driving offense.
The early-morning crash on June 11 involved five vehicles and happened about three hours after Hau Chi’s birthday.
Authorities suspected from the outset that Hau Chi was driving while drunk. Police began receiving 911 reports at 2:46 a.m., when Hau Chi’s Nissan Sentra was involved in a hit-and-run incident in the 4600 block of Everett Street. A license plate matching her car’s was found at the scene. Erratic driving was reported in other locations, police said.
Also killed in the crash was Woon D. Baek, a 65-year-old postal worker from Aurora.
On the same day two years earlier — June 11, 2008, the day after she turned 24 — Hau Chi was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving. She was convicted a month later of driving while ability-impaired.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com
