A 51-year-old woman, found in a car with heavy front-end damage on the side of the Post Road at 3:12 a.m. was charged with driving while under the influence, police said.
Darien police gave this account of what happened, including accusations not proven in court:
On April 7, a Thursday, an officer patrolling the Post Road near Renshaw Road saw the two-door car and the damage to it. In talking with the woman, the officer noticed a strong smell of alcohol on her breath.
The woman wasn’t able to tell the officer where the car had been damaged. She also said she had been drinking alcohol that night in Greenwich.
She was administered field sobriety tests and didn’t perform them to standard, so she was charged with driving while under the influence and taken to Darien Police Headquarters.
There, breath tests measured her blood-alcohol content at more than twice the legal limit for an adult driver (0.08) the first test was at 0.1719 at 3:54 a.m., the second test was at 0.1766 at 4:13 a.m.
The woman, a Stratford resident, was released on $50 bond and was scheduled to appear April 18 in state Superior Court in Stamford.