Dee Dowis' blood alcohol was 3 times the legal limit in crash

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A medical examiner's report says an Air Force quarterback's blood alcohol content was nearly three times the legal limit when he was killed in a car crash in August.

The Colorado Springs Gazette reports that the report by Gwinnett County, Georgia, medical examiner Dr. Carol A. Terry says Dee Dowis died from blunt-force trauma on the left side of the chest during the crash in suburban Atlanta.

The report says Dowis was driving the wrong way on Interstate 85 when he entered the median and was hit on the driver's side door by another vehicle. The medical examiner says Dowis was not wearing a seat belt and separate blood samples tested for alcohol levels of .210 and .233. The legal limit in Georgia is .08 percent.

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