Denard Robinson was asleep at wheel when he crashed into a pond
You knew we couldn’t get through a July 4 holiday weekend without some weird NFL story.
Denard Robinson, the Jacksonville Jaguars running back and former Michigan star, was an unlikely candidate to create the weird story though. But he pulled it off.
At 4:20 a.m. Sunday, according to Jacksonville.com, Robinson and a female passenger crashed into a retention pond after going down an embankment. They were asleep at the time of the crash and had to be helped out of the vehicle. The driver’s side door of the car was submerged in water, the Jacksonville Fox affiliate reported, citing the police report.
Jacksonville.com reported that an officer on the scene determined Robinson was not impaired and shouldn’t be charged with a DUI.
According to the police report from Fox 30 in Jacksonville, Robinson took a wide left turn, causing the car to go over the sidewalk and down the embankment. There were no skid marks indicating Robinson tried to stop the car before it crashed.
According to TMZ, an officer knocked on the driver’s door window of Robinson’s car. Robinson opened his eyes and went back to sleep.
“I continued to knock on the window until the passenger woke up and rolled the window down and said, ‘What’s up,'” the officer wrote in the report, according to TMZ. “I explained that their vehicle was in a pond and that they needed to exit.”
Robinson, a phenomenal college quarterback for the Wolverines, has been a solid contributor in his three seasons with the Jaguars. He has 941 rushing yards, 288 receiving yards and five touchdowns.
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