Drunk-driving charges laid after crash into bus bench, parked cars

A Winnipeg man has been charged with drunkdriving after being released from the hospital. Police say he crashed his car into a bus bench and two parked vehicles.

Police werecalled to the 400 block of Hamilton Avenue in Crestview at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

They say aneastbound sedan had veered across the boulevard and westbound lanes, onto the sidewalk, into a bus bench, then into two parked cars, where it came to a stop.

The driver and passenger were taken to hospital in unstable condition, but police say they're now stable.

A 30-year-old Winnipeg man is facing charges that includedangerous operation of a motor vehicle, driving while impaired causing bodily harm, and failing to provide a blood or breath sample.