kovacs32
Nipple show-er
fortunately not killing anyone, appears the best case scenario happened. It's guys like this that they need to figure out a different way to deter them because apparently the system is not working for people like this.
A 46-year-old Ann Arbor man with a history of drunken driving was arrested early Sunday after police said he drove the wrong way down Interstate 94, sideswiped a vehicle carrying children and struck a patrol car that had to wedge him into a ditch to get him to stop.
No one was seriously injured in the incidents, the Michigan State Police said.
The suspect, whom police said was heavily intoxicated and suffered only slight injuries, is being held at the Washtenaw County Jail and is expected to be arraigned Monday on multiple felony counts.
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The incidents took place shortly after midnight when the suspect was driving his red sedan eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-94 near Scio Church Road in Pittsfield Township.
Police say the man, whose name was not release pending arraignment, sideswiped a Jaguar carrying an adult driver and three juveniles. He then struck a concrete median barrier while fleeing the scene.
The driver, still traveling in the wrong direction, then attempted to swerve past an ambulance that had taken a roadblock position and hit another concrete barrier.
A waiting State Police trooper who had similarly positioned himself to block the lanes then deliberately struck the suspect’s sedan with the front of his patrol car to get him to stop. When the suspect tried again to drive away, the officer used his patrol car to push him into a ditch and make the arrest, Sgt. Chris Pascoe said.
Authorities are awaiting the results of a blood test to determine the man’s blood-alcohol level. The suspect was also carrying suspected narcotics, which will be analyzed in a lab, police said.
“He was very intoxicated,” Pascoe said. “They had to take him to St. Joe’s to make sure he wasn’t injured and then they took him to the jail.”
The passengers in the sideswiped Jaguar were “not seriously injured, fortunately, just bounced around,” he added.
Authorities plan to seek charges of operating while intoxicated third degree, a felony, leaving the scene of an accident, fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest and possession of a controlled substance suspected of being a narcotic, Pascoe said.
The suspect has six prior drunken driving charges and two convictions, and he has a previous arrest for driving with a suspended license, police said.
It was unclear where the suspect was traveling to or from and why he was driving in the wrong lanes.
It's believed that multiple drivers reported the suspect to 911.
A 46-year-old Ann Arbor man with a history of drunken driving was arrested early Sunday after police said he drove the wrong way down Interstate 94, sideswiped a vehicle carrying children and struck a patrol car that had to wedge him into a ditch to get him to stop.
No one was seriously injured in the incidents, the Michigan State Police said.
The suspect, whom police said was heavily intoxicated and suffered only slight injuries, is being held at the Washtenaw County Jail and is expected to be arraigned Monday on multiple felony counts.
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The incidents took place shortly after midnight when the suspect was driving his red sedan eastbound in the westbound lanes of I-94 near Scio Church Road in Pittsfield Township.
Police say the man, whose name was not release pending arraignment, sideswiped a Jaguar carrying an adult driver and three juveniles. He then struck a concrete median barrier while fleeing the scene.
The driver, still traveling in the wrong direction, then attempted to swerve past an ambulance that had taken a roadblock position and hit another concrete barrier.
A waiting State Police trooper who had similarly positioned himself to block the lanes then deliberately struck the suspect’s sedan with the front of his patrol car to get him to stop. When the suspect tried again to drive away, the officer used his patrol car to push him into a ditch and make the arrest, Sgt. Chris Pascoe said.
Authorities are awaiting the results of a blood test to determine the man’s blood-alcohol level. The suspect was also carrying suspected narcotics, which will be analyzed in a lab, police said.
“He was very intoxicated,” Pascoe said. “They had to take him to St. Joe’s to make sure he wasn’t injured and then they took him to the jail.”
The passengers in the sideswiped Jaguar were “not seriously injured, fortunately, just bounced around,” he added.
Authorities plan to seek charges of operating while intoxicated third degree, a felony, leaving the scene of an accident, fleeing and eluding, resisting arrest and possession of a controlled substance suspected of being a narcotic, Pascoe said.
The suspect has six prior drunken driving charges and two convictions, and he has a previous arrest for driving with a suspended license, police said.
It was unclear where the suspect was traveling to or from and why he was driving in the wrong lanes.
It's believed that multiple drivers reported the suspect to 911.
