When Andrea Sangermano crashed into two cars on Long Island one night last May, she assured the arresting officers she wasn't drunk or high. And even though she could barely stand up, her breath test registered a blood-alcohol level of .00 percent. Only later did it occur to her to inform the cops that her behavior might have something to do with her being a diabetic in need of insulin. But that didn't stop Nassau......

A 20-year-old woman, spending the day with her family at a water park, "mistakenly drove" a Chevy Avalanche forward, striking three relatives. Yerardin Gil's action killed her aunt, Rosa Ortiz and also injured other relatives Dolcina Ortiz and Tomas Esquerdo. The incident occurred at Splish Splash in Calverton, Long Island; the three had been sitting on a grass median, having a picnic, when Gil drove over the curb and into them. According to Newsday, police......

The drunk driving trial of Representative Vito Fossella will take place in October, in the waning months of his terms. Fossella was pulled over by police in Alexandria, VA in May, and it turned out the woman who picked him up from the police station was his mistress who he had a love child with. The Staten Island politician's lawyer is continuing to question the reliability of the equipment used to test Fosella's breath. Fosella......

A Bronx man was pulled over on the Long Island Expressway after being clocked at over 100 miles per hour while his 7-month-old son sat in the back strapped into his car seat. Hipolito Morales was arrested at around 3am on Saturday by Suffolk County Police who said he was "unsteady on his feet, had glassy eyes and his breath smelled of alcohol." The super of his Bronx building said that Morales was out on......

It turns out that Diamond Mircea and his wife Monica had gotten into a fight that culminated in her climbing on top of her husband's car's roof in an attempt to stop him from leaving. But Mircea kept driving, and Monica Mircea was still on the roof, per WNBC, "for a short distance before she fell on the pavement and suffered a head injury." Mircea was charged with DWI an vehicular assault (authorities don't think......

A man who was allegedly drunk crashed on Hylan Boulevard between Bryant and Bancroft Avenues during rush hour. With his kids in the minivan, the Staten Island Advance reports the driver "lost control" and "hit...a Verizon FIOS employees...sending his shoes and clipboard sailing through the air." Then the van "veered into the opposite lanes and hit a blue 2005 Mazda sedan head-on, which slammed into a black 2008 Jeep Grand Cherokee Laredo sport utility vehicle."......

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi has revamped its DWI "Wall of Shame". Suozzi sought to publicize DWI arrests after a police officer was critically injured when a drunk driver hit him--the officer was in his cruiser on the LIE having just pulled over another DWI driver--and released names, addresses, and photos of arrestees. Now Suozzi has removed offenders under 19, after parents complained and the fact that the youngsters could be given "youthful offender" status.......

A recent high school graduate was killed in a car accident early yesterday morning when a pickup truck drove into the Honda Civic she was riding in at East 65th Street and Park Avenue. Julie Tsang, 17, had graduated three days earlier from Millennium High School and was planning on attending Hunter College this fall. Police charged the truck's driver, 22-year-old Robert Gomez (who was not hurt), with criminally negligent homicide, DWI, and driving with......

Today, a 6-year-old boy will finally see his father, a Nassau County cop who was critically injured when a drunk driver rammed into his cruiser a month ago. Newsday reports little Christopher Baribault, who has been "plead[ing] to see his dad," will go to the hospital today. His father, Kenneth Baribault, had returned to his patrol car after pulling over a drunk driver on the Long Island Expressway when another drunk driver slammed into his......

Nassau County's unusual decision to release the names and photographs of everyone arrested for DWI over the Memorial Day weekend was both hailed and decried. Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi was moved to post the details and asked media outlets to run the information after a drunk driver plowed into a police cruiser--the police officer, who had just pulled over another drunk driver, was critically injured. Newsday spoke to a few of the arrestees, who......

Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi made good on his promise to publicize people arrested for driving while intoxicated over the Memorial Day weekend. Yesterday, he released the names of 109 arrested--81 were for DWI while 28 were arrested for driving while impaired, which is a lesser charge. The mugshots of the 81 DWI arrestees were also released. Suozzi said, "If the fear of killing somebody or the fear of ruining your life by getting......

Scandal-troubled Vito Fossella and his wife Mary Pat were seen at the 28th annual Advance Memorial Day Run. In their first public appearance since Fossella apologized for his DWI, the Advance reports the couple "were on-hand to show support for their son, Dylan, who was among the more than 1,000 individuals who ran the four-mile race." A witness told the Post the couple "kept their distance. They didn't look like they were together. It didn't......

Authorities say 27-year-old driver of a Mercedes that fatally plowed into a 30-year-old woman crossing Brighton Beach Avenue over the weekend was on drugs at the time of arrest. Police sources told the NY Post that Ronald Suriano "had just smoked a PCP-laced cigarette"; the Daily News' sources say he was "high on heroin." Suriano was traveling over the 30 MPH speed limit--the victim's friend said, "It had to have been over 100 mph." Apparently......

Representative Vito Fossella may not be ready to fight for re-election to the House, but he will try to fight a DWI conviction: Fossella's defense lawyer "subpoenaed files" from the maker of the Intoxilyzer 5000, a device whose findings have been challenged before. Fossella was found with a blood level alcohol of 0.17, twice the legal limit, in Alexandria, VA. The scandal grew when the media wondered who the woman who picked Fossella up from......

Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi is going to release information about everyone arrested for a DWI or DUI over this holiday weekend. Names, addresses, and mug shot photographs will be sent to local newspapers, with the request the papers print the information--all in an effort to shame people into not drinking and driving. Suozzi has been very upset by the incident where a Nassau County police officer suffered grave injuries after a drunk driver plowed......

Mary Pat Fossella has made her first public words after her Congressman husband's DWI arrest and admission about an extramarital affair and love child. She sent an e-mail to the Post:This has been a very painful time for my family and I. I have known Vito since I was 16 years old and this is not what I envisioned for him and my family. I had no idea of this world he was living. I......

The drunk driver who fatally struck a 24-year-old woman on East 4th and Bowery--and kept driving--last year has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter. Twenty-one-year-old Tenzing Bhutia, a senior at Baruch, will serve a two-year sentence starting in June for killing Julia Thomson (pictured) with his father's Mercedes last October. Thomson, a Scottish transplant who was living in the East Village, had been showing a friend the town when she was hit around 4 a.m. Witnesses......

Question: If a politician gets arrested for drunk driving and then has to cop to an extra-marital affair that spawned a secret love-child, does that mean he's unelectable? Embattled Republican congressman Vito Fossella doesn't think so; he's telling friends and advisers that that he thinks he can win re-election, the Times has it. After lying low for a little while, Fossella began tip-toeing back into the public eye this weekend with an appearance at a......

A Nassau County cop who had just pulled over a car for drunk driving early Sunday morning was hit by another drunk driver on the Long Island Expressway. Newsday reports 30-year-old police officer Kenneth Baribault "suffered severe head trauma, as well as broken bones in both his upper and lower torso" and underwent surgery for a blood clot. After pulling over a Kia SUV's for drunk driving, Baribault went back into his patrol car when......

Yesterday, a NJ volunteer firefighter was found guilty of fatally hitting an off-duty police officer. Robert Derian, who had a blood alcohol level of 0.12, had been driving his Jeep on the West Side Highwaywhen he hit 29-year-old Eric Concepcion. Concepcion was on his motorcycle, and prosecutors said that road rage caused Derian to hit Concepcion's bike. Concepcion's body was dragged 3000 feet along the road in August 2006. Derian's lawyer said it was an......

Representative Vito Fossella still has not uttered a peep about whether he's going to resign or stay on as a member of Congress in the wake of his DWI arrest and admission of having a love child and girlfriend in Virginia. But here's what's happening since yesterday!His crisis consultant says, "Congressman Fossella appreciates the support of so many people, including Guy Molinari, but he has not made any decision yet. And he continues to spend......

The noose is tightening around Representative Vito Fossella's political career: Many insiders think he should resign immediately, especially so the Republican can work on a replacement candidate for reelection this fall, and the Staten Island Advance editorial demands that he resign, "Far too much damage has been done to his personal reputation and credibility at this point for him to recover and be an effective public servant. And there is too much potential for......

The tabloids are really running with Representative VIto Fossella's DWI scandal. Today, the Daily News and Post get a hold of the Alexandria, VA police report and go to town. The News reports the police officer who pulled Fossella over noticed his "stained red" lips; Fossella said he "had about two or three glasses of wine"--the Congressman had a blood alcohol level of 0.17, twice the legal limit. The cop also wrote, "The subject stated......

Congressman Vito Fossella may be back at work in DC--considering the "Net neutrality" act--but the questions are still flying about his behavior before his DWI arrest last week. The Daily News found that Fossella and a friend were "pickled in a pub" in Virginia. A waiter at Logan Tavern said, "I can't imagine him [Fossella] getting into a car. They were [both] incapable of driving." The friend, "Brian," was so drunk that he passed out......

Carlos Zelayo is suing Madison Square Garden for continuing to serve a visibly drunk off-duty cop at a college basketball game, before the man left the arena and killed Zelayo's son and put his wife in a coma, from which she hasn't emerged. Kevin Freibott is the Jersey City cop currently serving an 11-year sentence for vehicular homicide. He killed two-year-old Jose Carlo Zelayo (pictured) on the Pulaski Skyway. Lawyers for MSG describe Zelayo's lawsuit......

The Gothamist Newsmapindicated a "Police Car MVA W/ entrapment" occurred at Miller & Bellmont Avenues in Brooklyn at 2:49AM this morning. It turns out that it wasn't just a police cruiser - it was a cruiser, a driver trying to flee a traffic stop and fifteen parked cars. According to WABC 7, driver Albert Caban had allegedly refused to pull over when the police stopped him for driving without his headlights. When he tried to......

The mother of the NYPD police officer killed when her friend and fellow cop drunkenly crashed on a Long Island highway spoke of forgiveness of the sentencing of Danielle Baymack. Baymack, who had been charged with DWI and vehicular manslaughter for the 2006 incident, pleaded guilty in exchange for what Newsday calls a "lenient sentence" of six months in jail and five years probation. Baymack and Marlene Rivera had both worked at the 103rd Precinct......

A 66-year-old man driving a Nissan Maxima was fatally hit by a drunk driver on Woodhaven Boulevard, between 101st Avenue and 97th Avenue in Ozone Park. Twenty-five-year-old Christopher Rivera, driving a Honda Accord, crossed the road's median around 10:45PM and slammed into the Maxima driving in the opposite direction. The Maxima then hit a third car, a BMW. The Maxima's driver was pronounced dead at the scene, his passenger was injured, as well as Rivera......