Strange summer on roads continues
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- September
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I’ve already talked about how strange and deadly this summer has been on our roads. Well, the oddness continues.
On Aug. 22, we had the Scarsdale guy who chased a man 15 miles from Putnam to Danbury, Conn., after the guy in a pick-up truck allegedly struck his car on I-684. Danbury cops charged the driver of the truck with driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
In Rockland, there’s another sad case: A man who is charged with vehicular manslaughter, in addition to driving while intoxicated, because his friend, a passenger in his car, died when he crashed a Ford Mustang on the New York State Thruway.
This follows the summer where a mom was arrested on a DWI charge after her daughter dialed 911 because they’d been in an accident, and where two people were hit with DWI charges for driving the same car. (They switched places before cops got to them, then admitted it.)
And of course, there was the horrific July 26 crash of Long Island mom Diane Schuler on the Taconic, killing Schuler, her daughter and three nieces and three men in an SUV she struck head-on. A toxicology report shows her blood alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit and she had THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, in her system.
Will the strangeness end? Or at least ease up a bit?
Time will tell.
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on Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 at 1:42 pm by Ken Valenti.
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