A Rockmart-area woman was jailed on Wednesday on several charges following a wreck near the intersection of Shiloh and Bailey Roads in the Cedartown area, per Polk County Police reports.

Officers responded to the scene at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17 to find a vehicle flipped over on Shiloh Road near Bailey Road, with the driver Valerie Marie Weldon, 28, of a Rockmart-area address, blaming a deer jumping out in front of the vehicle. She said she swerved to avoid it and that caused the vehicle to crash.

While explaining what happened, police reported that Weldon seemed to be intoxicated and they could “smell the odor of a suspected alcoholic beverage coming from her person.”

Weldon asked officers to have two juveniles checked out by EMS since they were in the car for the crash as well.

One of the officers on scene pulled Weldon aside to ask her if she had anything to drink, and she admitted to taking “two shots earlier.”

When given a breathalyzer test, the results came out to a .23 BAC – well over the legal limit to be behind the wheel.

Police released the children to a family member and Weldon was taken into custody.

After the vehicle was flipped back over, police reported finding five different open containers of alcohol inside the car.

Weldon was taken to Atrium Health Floyd Polk Medical Center to be cleared to be taken to the Polk County Jail.

She was later released on a $4,982 bond on misdemeanor charges of too fast for conditions, failure to maintain lane, no proof of insurance, DUI, two counts of DUI – child endangerment, and an open container violation.