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Two people were injured after a vehicle hit a tree head-on in Aurora Saturday evening, police said.
According to crash reports, police located Leslie Reyes, no address provided, in the driver’s seat of a vehicle that had crashed into a tree around 7:28 p.m. near Jackson Street and East Benton Street.
A witness stated that he was eastbound on East Benton Street, behind Reyes, and saw Reyes driving at a “very fast speed” before her car struck a curb and hit the tree, police said.
Both Reyes and a passenger in her vehicle were transported to an Aurora hospital for treatment.
Reyes was charged with drunken driving and improper lane usage, police said.
Erika Wurst is a freelance reporter for The Beacon-News.