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Monday, July 20, 2015Area:
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Monday, April 20, 2015Area:
New York, NY51-year-old Sean McKenna had herion in his vehicle and is believed to be under its influence when he struck five separate cars within a third of a mile while driving east on Jerusalem Avenue at about 5:49 p.m. He continued driving after each collision, until his car eventually left the roadway, struck a mailbox, destroyed about 100 feet of wooden fence, and finally crashed into a pole.
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Thursday, March 5, 2015Area:
New York, NY36-year-old Michael Fusaro was exiting a gas station parking lot at about 3:15 p.m. when he improperly drove over a snowbank into the southbound lanes of Deer Park Avenue and then over the concrete median into the northbound lanes. There he collided with northbound car before he continued across the lanes and finally came to rest after crashing into a nail salon off of the road. Both Fusaro and the driver of the other car sustained non-life threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital, though Fusaro has been arrested for DUI and possesion of drugs.
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Saturday, September 13, 2014Area:
Watertown, NYWhile Jandreau’s blood alcohol content was not available, a blood alcohol content of 0.08 or higher is considered proof of intoxication New York. The charge is elevated to aggravated DWI when the BAC is 0.18 percent or higher.
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Friday, January 31, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 31-year-old Ohio woman was arrested overnight for snowmobiling while intoxicated after she crashed into an ice fishing shanty, narrowly missing the three occupants, on Chautauqua Lake, sheriff’s deputies reported.
Chautauqua County deputies responded at 1 a.m. to the reported accident. They found that Christina M. Black, of Burghill, Ohio, had been operating a 2006 Ski-Doo snowmobile northbound on the lake’s frozen surface, about 200 yards from the shore of Lakeside Park in Mayville, when she struck the shanty, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
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Friday, January 17, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYAided by a witness who followed a hit-and-run driver, police arrested a Youngstown woman on a variety of charges early Saturday stemming from an accident on the Robert Moses Parkway.
According to reports, the suspect struck a car driven by a Youngstown man around 5:30 a.m., then drove away from the scene. A witness to the accident followed the fleeing driver, and sheriff’s deputies were able to stop her car on Blairville Road a short time later. Carole R. Rossi displayed signs of intoxication and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.16, twice the legal limit, police said.
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Wednesday, January 15, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYA 21-year-old motorist who drove into a house in Alden early today had a blood-alcohol content that was more than three times the legal limit, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported.
Zachary E. Olejniczak of Alden was heading north on Two Rod Road, shortly before 12:30 a.m., when he failed to stop at the intersection of Westwood Road, deputies said. His car went across the road and crashed into a home at 11664 Westwood Road, causing significant damage to the foundation.
The people who live there were home at the time but not injured, deputies said.
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Sunday, January 12, 2014Area:
Buffalo, NYAn Eden resident was charged with driving while intoxicated after a one-car crash Monday night on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, according to Erie County sheriff’s deputies.
A report of a property-damage accident on Route 438 at about 9:30 p.m. led to the arrest of Michael E. Schwanz, 29. Deputies said Schwanz submitted to a breath test that revealed a blood-alcohol content of .14.
Schwanz, who was released to a third party, is to appear in Brant Town Court.