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Woodbury Police Officer Who Survived DUI Crash Urges Holiday Partiers to Find Another Way Home

  • An off-duty Woodbury police officer named Olson and his son were struck by an impaired driver while on an ATV on August 11 in Itasca County.
  • Olson, along with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety, urges people to drive sober this holiday season to save lives.
  • Olson warned, "Your two-minute decision before you leave your festivities this week and decide to get into a car can change yourself and the rest of us and our families."
  • Olson expressed the lasting impact of the incident, saying, "I’m going to move on with the rest of my life, whatever that may be... always trying to recover from this.
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Woodbury police officer who survived DUI crash urges holiday partiers to find another way home

WOODBURY, Minn. — Allan Olson remembers hearing his son Jacob screaming in pain on the side of a dirt road. He remembers the gaping gash on his son’s arm as he crawled over to help him. “That’s the first thing I see, a very large gash on your own kid who was screaming at the top of his lungs,” Olson said. “And he goes, ‘Dad, there’s a lot of blood, and it’s collecting behind my back. I can feel it running down.’ So, I felt a lot of fear, quick.”…

·Cherokee County, United States
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police1.com broke the news in on Wednesday, November 26, 2025.
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