Cedar Rapids woman charged with OWI after car entered river in Iowa City

A Cedar Rapids woman was charged with OWI this week after a vehicle she had been driving crashed into the Iowa River on the University of Iowa campus.

Hannah Sofia, 18, is charged with driving while intoxicated, first offense.

According to a criminal complaint, Sofia was in a car that crashed into the Iowa River near the intersection of Iowa Avenue and Riverside Drive in Iowa City on Sunday, at around 3 a.m.

After the crash, Sofia reportedly said multiple times that she had been driving but that she and another person switched places in the driver’s seat before the car entered the river.

She admitted to drinking and driving earlier in the night, and provided two different breath tests, one of which put her blood-alcohol concentration at .138 percent, and the other at .104 percent.

Two people were in the car with Sofia when it crashed. No one was hospitalized as a result of the crash. The car was later removed from the water by Holiday Wrecker & Crane, a Tiffin-based towing company, according to the Iowa City Police Department.

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