VERONA, N.Y. (AP) - Officials say a Utica man faces drunk-driving charges after he rear-ended a sheriff’s DWI patrol car that was stopped beside the road with its emergency lights flashing.
Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol says in a news release that a deputy on DWI patrol pulled over a driver on Route 365 in Verona shortly before 1:30 a.m. Saturday. While he was talking to the driver, a Toyota Corolla came off the nearby Thruway ramp and hit the patrol car. Nobody was hurt.
Maciol says the Toyota driver, 21-year-old Jacob Perkins of Utica, was charged with driving while intoxicated, failure to take a breath test, failure to move over for an emergency vehicle and failure to reduce speed for a hazard.
He was taken before a town judge and released without bail.
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