BLACKBERRY TOWNSHIP – A Batavia man who was charged with drunken driving after he hit a ComEd pole was found to have a blood-alcohol content 2 1/2 times the legal limit, according to Kane County Sheriff’s reports.

Deputies were called to a single-vehicle crash at 6:30 p.m. Dec. 19 in the 42W000 block of Hughes Road in Blackberry Township. They found a 2006 white Ford E150 work van that had struck a ComEd pole, reports stated.

The driver, Ryan A. Duplack, 28, of the 200 block of Lake Street, Batavia, told deputies he was on his way to Maple Park when he looked down at his phone and veered off the road, causing him to crash into the pole.

While Duplack was being taken to Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva for evaluation, a witness told deputies that the white Ford work van had passed her on Hughes Road going west, overcorrected, went off the road and crashed into the pole.

Duplack was charged with driving under the influence, driving with a blood-alcohol content greater than 0.08% – his blood-alcohol content was 0.2, which is 2 1/2 times the legal limit of 0.08% – and driving with an expired registration.

Duplack admitted to drinking “six or so” Coors 12-ounce beers in a six-hour period, the report stated.

Duplack stated “he shouldn’t have been driving but wanted to see his girlfriend in Maple Park because he had not heard from her in three days,” the report stated.

Duplack was released on a personal recognizance bond and is to appear in court Jan. 25 for a status hearing, court records show.