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Drunk driver arrested, in Coop City, after damaging five cars in Section 5

Coop City Public Safety officers responding to a report of an auto accident involving several parked cars, eventually ended up taking the driver of the vehicle, which hit the parked cars, into custody on suspicion of drunk driving.

The accident occurred in front of Co-op City Building 26, on Elgar Place, during the overnight hours, early Sunday morning, January 17, 2016.

According to a Coop City Public Safety report on the incident, the alleged drunk driver, a resident of Coop City Building 33, drove his vehicle into a parked Honda Odyssey on Elgar Place and the force of the impact then pushed the Odyssey into a third vehicle which then hit and caused damage to a fourth and fifth parked vehicle. Two of the cars ended up on the sidewalk.

The initial collission was forceful enough to cause the airbag to be deployed, in the vehicle, which cause the chain reaction accident. Luckily, no one was in any of the other affected vehicles at the time of the impact.

According to the Public Safety report, responding Public Safety officers, upon questioning the driver of the vehicle noticed that he was speaking with slurred speech and showed other physical signs of a significant level of intoxication. According to the report, the driver admitted to having a couple of beers after attending a funeral earlier that evening. He was not injured largely due to the fact that his vehicle's airbag successfully deployed.

The driver was then taken to the NYPD 45th Precinct stationhouse where he underwent follow up testing for intoxication by officers from the NYPD's Highway Division.

Chief Frank Apollo, Commander of the Coop City Riverbay Department of Public Safety, called the arrest an outstanding example of Public Safety officers following correct procedure right from the initial response to reports of the accident, through the follow up investigation; which determined that the driver was intoxicated well beyond the legal limit for operationg a motor vehicle.

"By making this apprehension these officers removed an individual from the street path that could have potentially taken someone's life with their vehicle," Chief Apollo said.

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