A city woman faces a driving under the influence charge after police said she arrived to pick up her children from school while intoxicated.
Elizabethton Police Officer Paul Pritchard responded to the call at Harold McCormick Elementary School, where he said he found Kimberly Renee Dial, 34, 1218 Ledford St., Elizabethton, sitting outside the school office.
“Upon speaking with Ms. Dial, (I found) she had slurred speech and seemed to be under the influence of some type of intoxicant,” Pritchard wrote in the arrest report.
According to the report, school officials told Pritchard Dial appeared to have passed out while waiting in her vehicle in the school’s pickup line. When the line started moving, school officials said Dial struck the vehicle in front of her but did not cause damage to either vehicle.
Dial admitted hitting the other vehicle, Pritchard wrote, and when asked whether she was under the influence of anything, the officer said she told him she had taken a quarter of a Suboxone earlier in the day and later took a Subutex.
Pritchard described Dial as being unsteady on her feet and that she performed “poorly” on the field sobriety tests.
“Ms. Dial did state she was alone and had driven to the school to pick up her children,” Pritchard said.
Dial was charged with first offense driving under the influence and was transported to Sycamore Shoals Hospital for a blood test before being taken to the Carter County Detention Center.
She is scheduled to appear in court Nov. 10.