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Police: DUI Arrest for 18-Year-Old Driving Freshly Damaged Mercedes

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Glassy-eyed, smelling of alcohol and driving through downtown past midnight with a damaged tail light, an 18-year-old was charged last Tuesday with driving while under the influence, police said. Darien police described the incident and arrest with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

At about 12:30 a.m. on Tuesday, July 12, a police officer on patrol noticed that the left rear tail light was not working on a car traveling at a high rate of speed east on the Post Road downtown. The officer turned the patrol car around and followed. The patrol car started following the car, a white 1997 Mercedes Benz C-280. The Mercedes abruptly slowed down and turned into an office parking lot at 1500 Post Road (across the street from Spring Grove Cemetery).

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Police: DUI for Woman, 53, Who Hit, Damaged Front of Fire Truck

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A 53-year-old woman driving downtown at midnight, July 4 to 5, had more than double the legal limit of alcohol when she hit the front end of a fire engine parked in front of Darien Fire Department, police said. Darien police described the incident with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

The woman, a Norwalk resident, later told police she was driving home from a party in Milford. State police later told Darien police that they had received complaints about the woman’s erratic driving on Interstate 95. She had passed Norwalk on the highway and got off at Exit 11, then started driving east on the Post Road, through the center of town. A police officer on regular patrol was driving behind her vehicle, a 2000 Lexus RX station wagon SUV and noticed that her left-turn signal was on, although she was driving straight through town.

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Police: DUI for Woman, 52, After Car Crosses Traffic Lines

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A 52-year-old woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after a police officer saw her drive the wrong way on the one-way part of Center Street downtown, then drive over both the fog line and the double yellow line on Mansfield Avenue, police said. Darien police described the incident and arrest with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

At 1:56 a.m. on Sunday, July 3, an officer saw two vehicles going the wrong way on Center Street, where it’s a one-way road just behind the restaurants and bars along Tokeneke Road. The officer followed the vehicles as they turned onto Old Kings Highway South, then Tokeneke Road, the Post Road and then north on Mansfield Avenue. The officer saw one of the vehicles, a white BMW X4 cross the “fog line” on the right side of the road, then drift across the double yellow line in the middle of the road, until it was straddling he roadway in the area of Buttonwood Lane. The officer signaled for the car to pull over, which it did after about 20 seconds.

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Police: Second DUI for Man Arrested 2 AM Friday on Post Road

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A 30-year-old man who had been arrested on a charge of driving while under the influence in New York state was arrested for DUI after 2 a.m. Friday on the Post Road, Darien police said. Police described the matter with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

At about 2 a.m., Timothy Stillwell drove into Darien from Norwalk on the Post Road when a police officer saw the man’s blue Toyota with New York license plates pass by. The car seemed to have a flat right front tire, and Stillwell soon pulled into a parking lot at 151 Post Road. The officer followed to see if the driver needed help. When the officer approached, Stillwell was walking around the parking lot as he talked into his phone.

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Police: DUI Charge for Man, 22, After Car Snaps Utility Pole & Rolls Over on High School Lane

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A 22-year-old man with more than twice the legal limit for alcohol in his blood drove his car off the road near Darien High School, tore up 50 feet of grass, hit and snapped a utility pole and caused his car to roll over, Darien police said. The man was taken to Stamford Hospital with numerous minor injuries on the night of the accident, Monday, April 4. He was arrested June 6, two months after the incident, possibly because getting arrest warrants approved by state prosecutors and judges has become glacially slow after state budget cutbacks. The delay may also have resulted from police needing to execute a search warrant (signed by a judge on April 27) for the hospital to turn over blood test information, which showed his blood-alcohol content was 0.18, over twice the 0.08 legal limit, according to police. Darien police described the incident with this account (which includes accusations not proven in court):

Police were called to High School Lane at 11:41 p..m.

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DUI Charge for Man, 55, After Three-Car Accident on Hollow Tree Ridge Road

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A 55-year-old man driving at twice the legal blood-alcohol limit crashed into two other vehicles on Hollow Tree Ridge Road, near Red Cedar Drive, Darien police said. Police described the events with this account (including accusations not proven in court):

Shortly before 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 14, George Collazo, a resident of Wright Street in Stamford, was driving a gold 2000 Acura north on Hollow Tree Ridge Road when his vehicle veered into the southbound-traffic lane and sideswiped a car coming from the opposite direction. That vehicle was driven by a 54-year-old Trumbull man. ___________

— See also: After Car Accident, Teen Charged with Possessing Pot with Intent to Sell

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Collazo’s car then returned to the right lane and hit a vehicle pulling out of Red Cedar Drive. That vehicle was driven by a 44-year-old woman.

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DWI for Man, 42, Stopped Wednesday Night on Hoyt Street

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A Darien police officer in a patrol car by the side of the road on Hoyt Street last Wednesday got a tip, according to a police, when a driver stopped to tell her that the white van the driver had been behind was driving all over the road. The tip led to the arrest of a 42-year-old man on charges of driving while intoxicated. Darien police described what happened next in this account (including accusations not proven in court):

The officer, who had been stopped near St. John Cemetery,  started following the van south on Hoyt Street at about 9:48 p.m. She saw the work van, a 2015 Mercedes Sprinter, swerving within the right lane, as the tipster had said it was, and cross the double-yellow line, as the tipster had also described. She pulled the van over near the intersection of Hoyt Street and Briar Brae Road.