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Police: DUI for Darien Man After Vehicle Crash Injures Passenger [UPDATE]

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A passenger was injured and taken to a hospital late Sunday afternoon after a sport utility vehicle driven by 47-year-old Darien man crashed into a retaining wall at the Avalon Darien apartment complex, police said. The man, who lives at the complex, was charged with driving while under the influence, police said. [UPDATE: Police said the original time given for the report, 5:10 p.m., was wrong. The incident was called in to police at 12:57 a.m., Sunday, meaning the man was held or more than 27 hours.]

Darien police gave this further account of what happened, including accusations not proven in court:

At 12:57 a.m., Sunday, June 3, police were called to the apartment complex at 137 Hollow Tree Ridge Road, where they found a dark-colored SUV that appeared to have jumped a curb and struck a retaining wall. Andrew Lester, the driver, got out of the SUV.

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Police: Darien Man, 32, Charged with DUI at 8:28 AM on Memorial Day

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An intoxicated 32-year-old Darien man got into a single-car accident on West Avenue sometime before 8:28 a.m. on Memorial Day, ran off, stumbling, then ran again when a police officer first spotted him, Darien police said. Police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

Christopher Oxer of Henry Street (nearby) was driving a white Audi Q5 when the sport utility vehicle got into the accident. A caller told police that the vehicle drove into a bush. Police arriving at the scene saw the SUV, damaged, at 325 West Ave., at the corner of West Avenue and Patton Drive. The witness told police that the driver left the car and was headed toward Joseph Street, across West Avenue from the accident.(Oxer was later charged with leaving the scene of an accident and failure to stop at a stop sign.)

As an officer checked the area, a driver flagged him down to tell him that he saw the driver run, stumbling, behind a house on Charles Street (a block to the east).

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Police: DUI for 26-Year-Old Man at 2 AM on Interstate 95

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A man driving in the northbound lanes of Interstate 95 near Exit 10 was swerving from the center lane to the breakdown lane several times before a Darien police officer pulled over his car and later charged him with driving while under the influence, police said. Darien police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

The officer was on patrol and using the highway at about 2 a.m. Saturday, May 5 when he spotted a white 2014 Infinity Q50 swerving from lane to lane. After stopping the car and while speaking with the driver, the officer smelled the strong odor of an alcoholic drink. The driver, a 26-year-old Norwalk man, said he had been drinking that night. The driver couldn’t perform field sobriety tests to an acceptable standard, so he was arrested on charges of driving while intoxicated and failing to drive in the proper lane on a highway.

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Police: DUI for Man, 64, Driving Slowly and Erratically on Old Kings Hwy North

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A 64-year-old driver was reported to police as driving in an erratic way on Old Kings Highway North, near Goodwives Shopping Center on Palm Sunday evening, and then charged with driving while under the influence after officers themselves saw his driving, Darien police said. Darien police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

At 8:17 p.m., Sunday, March 25 someone called police to report the way a tan Chevrolet Silverado was being driven in the area. Officers dispatched to the area saw the car being driven very slowly through the shopping center parking lot. While following the car as it left the lot and headed east on Old Kings Highway North. the officer saw the driver make small abrupt movements and eventually cross outside the lane, over the double-yellow line at a curve in the road.

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DUI Monday for Man, 34, After Fender Bender on Leroy Ave Near Post Road

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A 34-year-old man was driving intoxicated when his vehicle got into a minor traffic accident with another vehicle shortly before 1 a.m. Monday (today), police said. After police arrived and began speaking with him, according to the police account, the man got angry and started walking back to his car, police told him to stop. When he didn’t, he was forced to the ground and taken into custody. Darien police described what happened with this account, including accusations not proven in court:

At 1:03 a.m., the two-vehicle accident on Leroy Avenue near the Post Road was reported to police. Jose Zuniga of Osborne Avenue in Norwalk was driving with three passengers.