Public Safety
Police: Thrown Drink Results in Charge for Driver on Post Road
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Frustration during some road construction on the Post Road last week resulted in one driver throwing a drink with ice in it at the side of a vehicle, police said. With a police officer at the construction scene, it was the wrong place (in the westbound-traffic lanes near Exit 13) and the wrong time (about 10:25 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13) to be doing such a thing, but anytime that day while the cop was there would have been a bad time. Police gave this account (not proven in court, if it ever gets there) of what they say happened:
The man, a 39-year-old Ledyard resident, was driving an SUV to the left of a 65-year-old New Canaan woman and both were trying to merge into one lane. The man yelled at the woman, saying, “We’re trying to merge!”