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DUI for Darien Boy, 17, on Long Neck Point Road

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Tip: When driving toward a police patrol car at 3:30 a.m., do not suddenly turn off your headlights. It will not make you less conspicuous. That, according to a Darien police report, is what a 17-year-old Darien boy did last Thursday while driving north on Long Neck Point Road (to be fair, we don’t actually know why he turned off the headlights). The result was that the police officer turned around, followed the 2007 Jeep Wrangler and saw it cross over the yellow line on the roadway. The officer pulled over the vehicle.

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Man, 20, Arrested on DUI Charge, then Domestic Violence Charge the Next Day

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A 20-year-old McCrae Road man was charged with driving while under the influence after a 7 p.m. traffic accident on Aug. 5, then arrested on domestic violence charges at about 9:30 p.m. the next evening, police said. Darien police gave these accounts of each incident (including accusations not proven in court):

Police were called to the intersection of McCrae Road and Old Kings Highway South on a report of a traffic accident. The man was driving a 2004 Infinity G35, which received heavy front-end damage and the air bags deployed when the accident occurred with a UPS truck. The McCrae Road man said he had no idea what had happened.

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Police: Woman, 33, Charged with DUI After Minor Downtown Traffic Accident

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A 33-year-old woman driving east on the Post Road hit another car, causing a minor accident, but a police officer who showed up noticed the woman smelled of alcohol and had difficulty standing, police said. That led to a driving while under the influence charge for the woman after the 12:30 p.m. accident on Monday, Aug. 1. Darien police described the incident and arrest with this account (with accusations not proven in court):

Near the intersection of Leroy Avenue 2008 Mercedes e350 as the driver of that car was waiting for traffic to turn left onto Leroy Avenue, the car was hit from behind by the 33-year-old Norwalk woman behind the wheel of a 2009 Honda Civic. A police officer called to the scene directed both drivers to move their cars out of the intersection, to get out of the way of heavy traffic.

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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.