A 68-year-old Village of St. Charles man was arrested after his golf cart rear-ended another golf cart Thursday evening on the multi-modal path.
Emergency personnel responded to the crash at about 7:30 p.m. at the tunnel at South Buena Vista Boulevard and Odell Circle.
Kenneth Richard Sechler was found sitting in the driver’s seat of a yellow Yamaha golf cart with the key in the ignition, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
He was asked by a deputy if he had been drinking.
“I drank way too many beers tonight,” he responded.
He failed field sobriety exercises and provided breath samples that registered .141 and .146 blood alcohol content.
He was booked on a charge of driving under the influence at the Sumter County Detention Center. Bond was set at $1,000. He was also ticketed on a charge of following too closely.