Bartender, bar won't face charges after late-night crash

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A Charlotte bar and bartender will not face charges after Mecklenburg County ABC officers said they could not find evidence of over-serving at Snug Harbor bar at Midway Plaza in February.

A patron left the bar and crashed into five road construction workers on Interstate 77.

Charles Breeding, 26, was accused of driving intoxicated when he plowed through safety barriers and hit the workers, who were all rushed to the hospital.

Breeding failed his road sobriety tests and blew three times the legal limit on two breath tests, scoring a 0.19, according to a warrant.

The legal limit is 0.06.

Breeding admitted he was at the Snug Harbor bar in Plaza Midwood before the crash, the warrant indicated.

State records show Snug Harbor was fined once last year by the Alcohol Beverage Control Commission, but the bar has never been investigated for anything as serious as this wreck.

Breeding told the officer "it was a mistake he drove" and that he'd drunk "three shots and two whiskey gingers" while at the bar.

"If there is someone at your bar intoxicated, and you know it, you have to turn them away,” said Mike Crowley, with the Mecklenburg County ABC.

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