A man who was driving drunk when he struck a bicyclist in Urbana must serve jail time, home detention and probation. This story from our news partners at WAND-TV.
Mitchell J. Snodgrass, 23, of Savoy struck Jonathon Parrish at about 8:10 p.m. April 22 in the 1600 block of High Cross Road. Parrish, who was third in a line of bicyclists moving single file on that street, suffered a number of injuries. He spent three weeks in the hospital with separated shoulders, damage to his face and scalp and broken teeth. Chronic back pain is a problem for Parrish, he wears braces on his teeth at this point and he is unable to play pickup basketball like he used to.
Snodgrass fled the scene of that crash and, when state troopers caught up with him at his Savoy home, he said he “panicked” in the aftermath of the collision. His alcohol level was measured later on at 0.14 – a number above the state legal limit of 0.08.





