on paid leave until further notice in the wake of his two DUI charges this week. The decision was unanimous.
UMW Rector Bill Poole said Frawley was in Mary Washington Hospital’s intensive care unit this afternoon.
He said at a news conference that he didn’t know the details of Frawley’s injuries.
“The tragedy of all this is he’s such a brilliant man and so capable,” Poole told The Free Lance–Star.
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The president of the University of Mary Washington also faces a charge of
drunken driving in Fairfax County stemming from an accident there Tuesday
afternoon, Fairfax police said today.
William J. Frawley, 53, was charged yesterday with drunken driving and
refusing a Breathalyzer test in Fredericksburg, city police said. Both are
misdemeanors.
Fairfax County police spokeswoman Camille Neville said today that there is
an outstanding warrant for Frawley in Fairfax on a DUI charge from Tuesday.
Mary Washington officials released a statement yesterday saying that
Frawley, who took over as Mary Washington president in July, had been in a
wreck Tuesday in Northern Virginia.
The single-vehicle wreck was at 12:30 p.m. in the 8700 block of Georgetown
Pike in Fairfax County, Neville said. That’s near the Great Falls National
Park.
Neville said a 2006 Toyota Avalon driven by Frawley ran off the road and
overturned. She said officers at the scene “had probable cause” to believe
Frawley was intoxicated. A DUI warrant was issued. Neville did not release
specific evidence about what constituted the probable cause.
Frawley was taken by ambulance to Inova Fairfax Hospital, Neville said. He
has not yet been served with the warrant in Fairfax. The Avalon ended up on
its roof and was towed to a storage lot.
Neville said the police report makes no mention of anyone else being in the
Avalon when it flipped.
Mary Washington university officials said Frawley left Inova Fairfax early
yesterday morning against advice. He was arrested about 2 p.m. yesterday at
Brompton, the official residence of the Mary Washington president.
It’s unclear exactly how Frawley got between Inova Fairfax and
Fredericksburg.
About 1:45 p.m. yesterday, a woman called the 911 center in Fredericksburg
to report she was driving behind a green Toyota Camry on the Chatham Bridge.
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Date published: 4/12/2007
