Blog Posts in July, 2011
Posted on Jul 29, 2011 By Karen
An alleged drunken driver was arrested after NYS police said that she sideswiped another vehicle in North Lindenhurst on Wednesday night. The 28-year-old woman was driving westbound when she ...
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Posted on Jul 29, 2011 By Karen
A Suffolk County police officer was hit by an alleged drunken driver while making a traffic stop on Thursday night, authorities said. The officer was pulling over a vehicle on Jericho Turnpike when ...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2011 By Karen
An alleged drunken driver was arrested following a foot chase by police officers on Monday night. A 38-year-old driver was pulled over for driving and talking on a cell phone but he drove away as the ...
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Posted on Jul 28, 2011 By Karen
A woman who killed a man after driving the wrong way on I-95 was arraigned today on a felony manslaughter charge. She pleaded not guilty to second-degree manslaughter. The charge carries a punishment ...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Karen
Deer Park man has plead guilty to driving drunk for nearly 12 miles in the wrong direction on the Long Island Expressway then crashing into the center median and killing his friend in last year. The ...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 By Karen
A man was charged with DWI after he struck two pedestrians, killing one, in North Amityville early Monday, Suffolk County police said. He was driving southbound on Route 110 when he hit a man and ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2011 By Karen
A Harlem man died yesterday after a drunk driver hit him and then left the scene of the accident. Instead of stopping, the driver hit the gas after striking the man and left him lying in the street, ...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2011 By Karen
A Yorktown man is due in Town Court to answer to felony charges of DWI and driving with a suspended license, police said today. The 21-year-old was stopped on Saturday when he was observed not wearing ...
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Posted on Jul 20, 2011 By Karen
A Westchester County police officer avoided a major collision with a driver travelling the the wrong way on the Bronx River Parkway on Monday, authorities said. The officer saw headlights coming at ...
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Posted on Jul 19, 2011 By Karen
Two men in the same car are facing new felony DWI charges after a traffic stop this morning. An officer assisting NJ police with an unrelated case saw two cars speeding northbound on the Palisades ...
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Posted on Jul 17, 2011 By Karen
A motorcyclist was found to be DWI when he crashed his motorcycle during a race with another in Riverside, landing in the hospital Thursday night, Southampton Town Police said. His female passenger, ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 By Karen
Texting or using any handheld device while driving is against the law in New York State as of Tuesday. Officials from the NHTSA say 16% of deadly accidents in 2009 were linked to distracted drivers. ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 By Karen
An 18-year-old man was DWI when he crashed on Route 202, police said today. Officers responded to the crash scene Saturday and determined that one of the drivers was intoxicated and then charged him ...
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Posted on Jul 12, 2011 By Karen
An young woman is accused of assaulting a police officer after hitting a utility pole while drunk driving on the Bronx River Parkway, authorities said. The 21-year-old was arrested on a misdemeanor ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2011 By Karen
A Cortlandt man was texting while driving and DWI when he crashed his vehicle on Route 9, police said. The 33-year-old was charged with misdemeanor DWI after the crash at Main Street, Lt. Eric ...
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Posted on Jul 8, 2011 By Karen
Troopers from the Brewster barracks charged a man with DWI after a traffic stop today, state police said. The 22-year-old from Danbury was stopped on Route 22 because of excessively tinted, an ...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2011 By Karen
Two drivers who were stopped for speeding were accused of felony DWI because they were driving with children as passengers inside the vehicle. New York State police stopped a vehicle being driven 53 ...
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Posted on Jul 7, 2011 By Karen
A 51-year-old man was killed in a car accident on Monday while DWI in Plainview, Nassau County police said. The Massapequa man was driving southbound in the right hand lane of the Seaford-Oyster Bay ...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2011 By Karen
Around 1:30 a.m. on July 23, 2006, Tiffany Heitkamp was a passenger on a speedboat on a lake in Old Forge, N.Y., that crashed into Alger Island State Campground. The driver was travelling so fast that ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Karen
A Commack man has been arrested, twice in four days, for driving while high on drugs on the Long Island Expressway. Suffolk County deputy sheriffs had charged a 33-year-old man on Saturday, and then ...
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Posted on Jul 1, 2011 By Karen
A teenager has been arrested for felony DWI while driving a go-kart on Shelter Island. He is being charged under Leandra's law because his two passengers were minors. Shelter Island Town Police pulled ...
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