A Dyer man faces charges for a drunken crash near unincorporated Cedar Lake. Andrew Burrell, 30, was charged Thursday with multiple felonies. He has not been apprehended. When he is arrested, he is ordered to be held on a $12,000 cash surety bond. The Lake County Sheriff’s Department Crash Reconstruction Team responded around 11:30 p.m. on Oct. 7 to the 11500 block of Calumet Avenue, near the Dyer and Cedar Lake border. Police concluded Burrell was driving a Pontiac Firebird at 126 miles per hour before he braked to 114 mph a second before the crash. His Firebird allegedly swerved off the road briefly and got back on before rear-ending the Grand Marquis northbound on Calumet Avenue. His Firebird spun east; the backend hit a tree, the affidavit states. The impact blew out the Firebird’s windshield. The Mercury Grand Marquis spun west into a ditch. Burrell was extracted and later airlifted to Chicago. He was intubated with a “severe” head injury and internal bleeding. A warrant for a toxicology test found alcohol in his system. The woman with him declined medical help. She later said they had just left Hunley’s Bar and Grill, 13115 Northwest Lake Shore Drive, and were headed to Crown Point or Schererville. He “swerved the vehicle” and “they started to spin,” she said, according to court records. The Mercury’s driver, 60, from California, his father, 94, mother, 91, and wife, 62, were all injured. They were headed back to his mother’s home in Illinois from his sister’s house nearby. The driver turned onto Calumet and “just remembers spinning,” documents state. He had a concussion, vertigo, whiplash, back pain and PTSD. The father had injuries, including fractured vertebrae. Both the mother and wife had injuries that left them unable to walk independently after the crash. Their civil lawyer, who contacted the cops, said the passengers’ medical records were “voluminous.” Burrell was charged with eight felonies – four counts of causing serious bodily injury when operating a motor vehicle with an ACE of .08 or more and four counts of causing serious bodily injury when operating a vehicle while intoxicated, plus several misdemeanors. [email protected]