A Penn State student with a blood alcohol content (BAC) of .264 percent was one of three people charged with DUI within three hours of each other Thursday morning, the State College Police Department said.
Police said all three drivers had BAC levels above .250 percent -- three times the legal driving limit of .08 percent.
The 27-year-old Penn State student was stopped at about 3 a.m. Thursday, only three hours after the first DUI arrest, police said. Authorities stopped the student after he drove onto the sidewalk near College Avenue and Atherton Street, police said.
A 66-year-old State College man was also stopped at about 1:30 a.m. after driving on the sidewalk in Calder Way, police said. He had a BAC of .436 percent, police said.
An hour before that, police stopped a 34-year-old man from Montgomery County at about 12:30 a.m. on Beaver Avenue, police said.
The man was driving the wrong way down Beaver Avenue with a BAC of .276 percent, police said.