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Karen Huger has been charged with DUI and hit with different driving citations after a automotive accident on Tuesday evening.
Because the Actual Housewives of Potomac star, 60, insists that she was merely emotional about her late mom’s passing, crying as she drove following a dinner date with a good friend, a collection of recent reviews declare Karen was driving quick and recklessly earlier than crashing right into a median and a few street indicators.
In keeping with court docket information obtained by TMZ on March 20, Karen is dealing with one rely of DUI and one other quotation for DWI, the primary of which would require her to look in court docket.
“[Karen was] negligent … [and] driving approach over the velocity restrict and driving with a suspended registration,” the report said, confirming she obtained a complete of six site visitors violations with fines as much as $510.
After Karen reportedly ran right into a median and a crosswalk register Potomac, Maryland together with her 2017 Maserati, she was mentioned to have continued driving and hit a parking signal, damaging her automobile and inflicting the airbag to deploy.
Following the incident, Karen launched an announcement to TMZ.
“Thanks all on your prayers and nicely needs throughout this very horrifying expertise. I’m nonetheless in shock from final nights incident, however grateful to be alive immediately. With the passing of my Beloved Mom, grief comes and goes in waves, and with [Mother’s] Day approaching it has felt extra like a tsunami,” she mentioned. “Final evening I met a girlfriend for dinner, we talked and introduced up some very emotionally delicate subjects. I used to be crying on my approach residence and noticed a automotive heading proper for me. I swerved to keep away from the head-on collision, hit the divider after which a tree. I’m harm, bruised up a bit, however so grateful I’m alive! I did obtain citations, one in every of which was unrelated to the incident which is comprehensible, however what was most shocking is that the automotive that just about hit me simply drove away!”
“I wish to stress, it’s necessary to grasp your emotional state when driving and will this be a reminder to all to make use of their seatbelts, my Mom could also be my Guardian Angel however the seatbelt saved my life,” she added.
Along with Karen failing to say her DUI cost and potential arrest, cops from Montgomery County additionally didn’t converse of an incarceration and there’s no reserving to show or disprove whether or not she was ever behind bars.
Karen’s DUI cost comes simply months after her fellow Actual Housewives star, Actual Housewives of Orange County‘s Shannon Beador, 59, obtained her personal DUI after hitting a home in Newport Seaside following an alleged dispute together with her former boyfriend, John Janssen, 60, who’s now courting her co-star, Alexis Bellino, 47.
The Actual Housewives of Potomac season eight airs Sundays at 8/7c on Bravo.
