DUI
Peculiar drunk driving articles for the week of January 30
Really odd drunk driving news – Parallels - Hitting police vehicles.
Automobile and sheriff’s cruiser and North Carolina DWI – Brysson Campbell, 29, was traveling too fast for the wet road conditions, lost control of his Acura while trying to turn and struck a New Hanover County sheriff’s cruiser sitting at a red light. No one was injured. Campbell was charged with exceeding a safe speed and driving while intoxicated in North Carolina.
Automobile and patrol car and Idaho DUI – Wolfgang Drude, 59, was charged with drunk driving in Idaho after hitting a parked patrol car. The officer had parked the cruiser while conducting a traffic stop and Drude struck the vehicle with his Mercedes van. Drude drove off, telling police later that he thought he had hit a dog. The officer was outside of the vehicle at the time of the accident and no one was injured.
Automobile and police cruiser and Massachusetts DUI – Fitchburg Police responding to a report of a two vehicle accident discovered that a car had hit a marked police cruiser. The cruiser had been blocking part of an intersection, with emergency lights flashing, while wreckers were trying to right an overturned utility truck. Paul J. Gallant entered the intersection with his Lincoln Town Car and struck the police vehicle. The officer, who was outside his vehicle at the time, was shaken up but uninjured. Gallant, 55, was charged with several offenses, including drunk driving in Massachusetts.
Salt truck and police cruiser and Pennsylvania DUI - Rodney Rosen, a Butler County street department worker, was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence in Pennsylvania after plowing his salt truck into a police cruiser. The law enforcement vehicle was unoccupied at the time and no one was injured. Rosen, 42, reportedly had a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit for intoxication in PA.
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