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Off-Duty NYPD Cop Busted For Drunk Wrong-Way LI Joyride

Off-Duty NYPD Cop Busted For Drunk Wrong-Way LI Joyride

An off-duty cop was busted this week for drunk driving after she took an eight-mile cruise down a Long Island parkway...in the wrong direction. more ›

Wrong Way Driver, Possibly Drunk, On Garden State Parkway

Wrong Way Driver, Possibly Drunk, On Garden State Parkway

No matter that the Taconic State Parkway wrong-way crash claimed 8 lives when a minivan driver, apparently drunk and high, slammed into another SUV—driving the wrong way while possibly drunk is still happening. According to the Asbury Park Press, a driver was arrested—authorities believe he was intoxicated—after causing two wrong-way accidents on the Garden State Parkway at 5:20 p.m. yesterday. The driver "was going northbound in the southbound lanes" near Hazlet, NJ. "After striking one car, the wrong-way driver hit a second vehicle in the southbound express lanes before going through the guardrail and down into a ravine. The driver of the second car is pregnant and was being treated for a minor injury." more ›

Brooklyn Gospel Pastor Injured in PA Car Crash

Brooklyn Gospel Pastor Injured in PA Car Crash

Famous gospel singer Rev. Timothy Wright of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Crown Heights was seriously injured in a car accident on I-80 in Pennsylvania Friday evening. His wife Betty did not survive the crash, after a man driving a Chevy Corsica the wrong way on the interstate struck their car as they were driving home from a conference in Detroit. The Wrights' grandson, 14-year-old D.J. Wright, was also fatally injured in the wreck and passed away in a Pennsylvania hospital. The driver of the Corsica, 44-year-old John Pick of Lewisburg, PA, was killed in the crash. more ›

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