{"id":1418068,"date":"2025-06-12T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T19:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1418068"},"modified":"2025-06-15T07:18:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T12:18:17","slug":"drunk-driver-arrested-after-truck-flips-leaving-passenger-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1418068","title":{"rendered":"Drunk driver arrested after truck flips, leaving passenger dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-142302-e1749756244659-200x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1418069\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-142302-e1749756244659-200x200.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-142302-e1749756244659-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-142302-e1749756244659.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>BULLARD &#8211;  Our news partner KETK reports that one person is dead after an alleged drunk driver\u2019s vehicle flipped over onto a fence on Wednesday night in Bullard.<\/p>\n<p>According to the court documents, around 8 p.m. a trooper responded to an one vehicle roll-over on County Road 3601 where a man was by the road saying \u201chis passenger was missing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The trooper said the man, identified as 30-year-old Cordale Rayshon Graham, smelled of alcohol and kept saying \u201che was the passenger because he was drunk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bullard Fire Department located the other person who was dead on the passenger side of the vehicle.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A deputy talked to a witness down the road that said Graham and the other person arrived at the home intoxicated, and when they left Graham was driving.<\/p>\n<p>A standardized field sobriety test was conducted, and they observed multiple indications he was intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to the totality of circumstances and the statements by witnesses, I believed Graham to be the driver of the vehicle and to be operating a vehicle on a public roadway while intoxicated,\u201d the document said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the affidavit, while on the way to the hospital to conduct a blood test, Graham admitted that there was marijuana in his pants. The trooper saw Graham pull out a plastic baggie containing a green, leafy substance which he knew to be marijuana.<\/p>\n<p>After a blood test was done, Graham was taken to the Cherokee County Jail and booked for charges of intoxication, manslaughter, and possession of marijuana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BULLARD &#8211; Our news partner KETK reports that one person is dead after an alleged drunk driver\u2019s vehicle flipped over onto a fence on Wednesday night in Bullard. According to the court documents, around 8 p.m. a trooper responded to an one vehicle roll-over on County Road 3601 where a man was by the road &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1418068\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drunk driver arrested after truck flips, leaving passenger dead<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1418393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-142302-e1749756244659-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1418068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-09 00:18:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2025\/06\/Screenshot-2025-06-12-142302-e1749756244659-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1418068"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1418637,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1418068\/revisions\/1418637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1418393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1418068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1418068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1418068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}