A Cleves woman is facing charges after allegedly causing a head-on collision while under the influence of methamphetamine and marijuana. According to reports from Local12, Stephanie McBride had these substances in her system during the accident that took place this past May.
As court documents laid out by FOX19 suggest, McBride veered her Ford Explorer across the median into oncoming traffic on Kilby Road in Harrison, colliding with a Chrysler minivan. The misrepresented impact resulted in the minivan driver being hospitalized with multiple fractures.
McBride, 38, now faces serious legal repercussions, including charges of aggravated vehicular assault and vehicular assault. She is currently held at the Hamilton County Justice Center awaiting proceedings. The victim in the Chrysler van suffered multiple injuries including "broken ribs, a broken left knee and tibia," as reported by the affidavit detailed in the FOX19 article.
There’s a human cost that such incidents carry, a cost that often gets obscured by the legal jargon and the staccato of the courtroom's procedural drumbeat. While McBride's alleged intoxication paints a larger narrative of addiction's detrimental impact on public safety, the survivor of her head-on collision now faces a long road to recovery, burdened by broken bones when her van and McBride’s Explorer met so disastrously.
