SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO AM) - Sioux Falls Police say 24-year-old Timothy Robert Popkes of Canistota is charged with vehicular battery and DWI in a three vehicle accident Friday afternoon on East Tenth Street in Sioux Falls.
Officer Sam Clemens says Popkes drifted over the center lane hitting a van almost head on pushing it into a third vehicle.
Clemens says the driver of the van was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries but he couldn't say what her injuries are or what condition she is in.
There were three children in the van and two suffered minor injuries. The female driver of the third vehicle was not injured. There were three children in that car too and one was treated on scene for a minor injury.
Popkes was driving a pickup at the time of the accident and he was treated at a city hospital.