WESTWOOD, N.J.—Perhaps demonstrating that some people are their own worst enemy, a resident called police at 3:15 p.m. on Aug. 28 to say he couldn’t find his car. Officers responded to his location, at Westwood and Center avenues, and assessed that he was under the influence of alcohol. After one unit gave him a ride back to his apartment and told him to stay put, another officer radioed in to say he located the car in the lot on Westwood Avenue.
Officers were then surprised to find the man, 32, walking back downtown. They told him to return home, noting he clearly couldn’t drive in his condition. He assured them he would do so.
Not long after, the reporting officer says he saw the man operating his vehicle. As he pulled into his apartment parking lot, the officer pulled him over and had him step out and perform field sobriety tests. The man was unable to satisfactorily complete the tests.
His car was impounded and he was arrested and brought back to headquarters, where tests showed his blood alcohol level was at 0.15 percent. Due to his level of intoxication and because he had no one to come pick him up he was transported for his own safety to New Bridge Medical Center.
He has a court date to answer for complaints of DWI and careless driving.
In other police news:
Honda sends Cadillac on ride over rock wall
Two vehicles collided just after 2 p.m. on Sept. 3, leaving both inoperable and one driver summonsed for failure to stop or yield the right of way before entering an intersection.
The wreck involved a Cadillac and a Honda meeting on Lafayette Avenue and West End. The Honda, turning, reportedly struck the Cadillac and sent it over a rock wall on the southbound curb and then onto a second property, where it came to rest against a speed limit sign.
Police said the Honda driver was ticketed and that there was no report of injury.
