Category Archives: Connecticut

Brooklyn – Passenger dies in alleged drunken driving crash on Williamsburg Bridge | nydailynews.com

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A 21-year-old backseat passenger died when a drunken driver crashed on the Williamsburg Bridge early Monday, police sources said.

Janice Brown, of New Haven, Conn., was in the back seat of a silver 2003 Nissan Altima when driver Ayisha Dobson, 23, oversteered a turn near the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway interchange and hit a guardrail on the passenger side about 4 a.m.

Brown was thrown from the car onto the bridge roadway and died at the scene.

read more here > Drunken driving crash kills car’s passenger, 21, on Williamsburg Bridge, cops sources say – NY Daily News.

Waterbury, Conn. – Toddler dies after Sunday evening crash | WTNH.com

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A 16-month-old girl died as the result of injuries she sustained in a two-vehicle crash in Waterbury Sunday night.

The incident happened around 6 p.m., on Wolcott Street at its intersection with Long Hill Road.

Police said 31-year-old Anthony Lee Faulk, of North Carolina, was driving a 2006 Chevy Impala south on Wolcott St. when he rear-ended a 1997 Mazda Protege, which was stopped at a red light heading south on Wolcott St. at Long Hill Rd.

The Mazda was being driven by 18-year-old Takiah Alaina Rollinson, of Waterbury. Nineteen-year-old Daijanique Coleman, also of Waterbury, was riding in the front passenger seat and Rollinson’s child, 16-month-old Aaliyah Santiago was strapped in a car seat in the rear.

Faulk, Rollinson, and Coleman were all treated and released from St. Mary’s Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Police said Santiago was initially taken to St. Mary’s Hospital with a head injury, but was later transferred by Lifestar to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center. She died overnight as a result of her injuries.

read more here > PD: Toddler dies after Waterbury crash | WTNH.com Connecticut.

Bloomfield, NY: Woman dead after overnight crash with alleged drunk driver on Staten Island Expressway | dnainfo.com

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A 29-year-old woman was killed and four people were hurt when a drunk driver traveling the wrong way on the Staten Island Expressway crashed into another car early Monday, officials said.

Raffaella Russo, of Stamford, Conn., was killed when a 2007 Toyota traveling east in the westbound lanes of the expressway near South Avenue slammed into the car she was riding in about 2 a.m., the NYPD said.

Russo, a passenger in a 2012 Toyota, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

Jared Reifschneider, 27, a Staten Island resident, who was driving the 2007 Toyota, was arrested and charged with criminally negligent homicide, DWI and reckless driving, police said.

via Woman Killed by Drunk Driver in Staten Island Crash, Police Say – DNAinfo.com New York.

Suffield Woman Sentenced in Fatal Drunk Driving Accident – The Granbys, CT Patch

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A Suffield woman was sentenced to a year and a month in jail because of her responsibility for a fatal car accident on August 2010.

Amanda Conway was driving the car that spun out of control and collided with a tractor-trailer near I-91 in Enfield, causing the death of Conway’s passenger Alexa Crosby and injuries to passenger Ann Bauchiero. Conway will serve 13 months of a 5-year prison sentence before that sentence is suspended, followed by five years of probation, according to a clerk at the Enfield Superior Court.

read more here > Suffield Woman Sentenced in Fatal Drunk Driving Accident – The Granbys, CT Patch.

East Lyme, CT: 1 dead, 3 injured as Conn. woman charged with DUI after hitting motorcycle | Boston.com

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Police say one man was killed and three others injured after a woman accused of driving under the influence struck a motorcycle on Interstate 95 in southeastern Connecticut.

The Hartford Courant reports ( http://cour.at/LGP2Hf) that police say Christina Morton-Lane of Old Lyme struck a guard rail early Sunday morning, crossed over the grass onto the highway, hitting a motorcycle driven by Robert Burr of Clinton.

His bike was struck by another motorcycle. He and his passenger were ejected.

The 35-year-old Burr was declared dead at the scene. His passenger, Emily Gorin of Clinton, was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.

Two people on the second motorcycle also were hospitalized.

Police say the 23-year-old Morton-Lane was arrested for driving under the influence. She was not injured in the crash, and it was not known if she’s represented by a lawyer.

via 1 dead, 3 injured as Conn. woman charged with DUI – Boston.com.

I said, “If you’ve been drinking, don’t play chicken with a patrol car.” (see earlier post today also).

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A police car collided with an SUV on State Street in Bridgeport Thursday, May 10, 2012. Photo: Autumn Driscoll / Connecticut Post

“You should see the other guy”

A man police say was drunk led officers on a wrong-way chase through a large swath of the central city Thursday evening before colliding head-on with a cruiser and injuring a sergeant.

Sgt. Philip Sharp suffered a knee injury and was brought by ambulance to St. Vincent Medical Center for treatment. The suspect, Demar Thompson, 37, suffered a head injury and is being treated at Bridgeport Hospital, where he remains under guard.

The chase wound its way over a circuit that stretched from Ridge Avenue in the Marina Village housing development to upper Park Avenue, with Thompson several times driving at high speed the wrong way on one-way streets.

via Cops: Drunk driver collided head-on with Bridgeport sergeant – Connecticut Post.

East Haven, CT: Driver crashes into liquor store. Charged w/DUI. Blames it on NyQuil and Armor All | NBC Connecticut

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The woman who was charged with DUI after her car slammed through a liquor store in East Haven Friday afternoon is blaming it all on Nyquil and Armor All.

A car driven by Sharon Brooks, 63, of East Haven crossed over the sidewalk and crashed through the front entrance of Yankee Discount Liquor at 664 Foxon Road around 2:30, according to police.

The car continued halfway into the store striking the counter, crushing displays of wine, and injuring an employee inside.  The worker was transported to Yale-New Haven Hospital with what police called minor injuries.

via Driver Charged With DUI After Liquor Store Crash | NBC Connecticut.

Norwich CT: Lisbon man gets 4 years in fatal DWI crash

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A judge in Norwich today sentenced a 28-year-old Lisbon man to four years in prison for causing a fatal 2009 crash in Norwich that claimed the life of a Willimantic woman.

Christopher P. Brulotte was sentenced by Judge Hunchu Kwak to 10 years suspended after four years in prison and five years of probation.

via Lisbon man gets 4 years in fatal DWI crash – Norwich, CT – The Bulletin.