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Thursday, May 14, 2015
Mary A. Coletti, 56, is accused of DWI after police say that she sideswiped a telephone pole on Red Mill Road while driving her Lakeland School District Bus with 35 children aboard. She was placed behind bars on $1,000 bail.
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Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Andrew C. Wellington, 22, was found to be under the influence of alcohol when he was driving to the north on State Route 32 shortly before 8:00 p.m., drove over a double-yellow line, and collided with a vehicle driven by 35-year-old Travis Cole. Cole, his passenger Taylor Watzka, 23, and his 1-year-old son were all hospitalized with injuries deemed non-life threatening. Though there were two children in Wellington's car when he crash, thankfully neither of them were injured. Wellington has since faced multiple charges.
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Tuesday, February 4, 2014
A Depew man was charged with violating Leandra’s Law after a deputy discovered him impaired by drugs while he was driving with two children in his car, the Erie County Sheriff’s reported. A deputy responded to an accident involving two vehicles on Main Street at Sandridge Road in Alden about 8:45 p.m. Wednesday. During his investigation, the driver of one of the vehicles, David Wilczak, 30, admitted he had been using heroin that day, but he refused to submit to a blood test, according to the deputy. Wilczak had two children, ages 5 and 9, in his vehicle at the time of the accident.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
A 39-year-old Long Island woman has been arrested for allegedly driving drunk with her two young children in the car, police say. Suffolk County police say Laquita Brooks was arrested after losing control of the car and striking a signpost and then a tree Thursday night in Huntington. Police say her 5-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter were seated in the rear and didn't have proper child restraints. The girl suffered a serious head injury and her brother sustained a minor head injury. The mother wasn't seriously hurt.