JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace issued a warning to drivers on New Yr’s Eve who select to get behind the wheel after an evening of consuming.
JSO sends this message to the group: Drive sober or get pulled over.
“Lives are on the road. We hope you could have a protected and comfortable New Yr!”
The company’s reminder was additional emphasised due to a Thursday morning crash involving a person accused of driving underneath the affect and colliding into an officer’s automobile on Dec. 26.
JSO stated Patrol Officer H. Melvin activated his emergency lights and parked his patrol automobile behind a disabled automobile on the Mathews Bridge to assist two males change a tire.
Aleksandr Bratulin, 30, was driving a pickup truck when he slammed into the officer’s automobile, “inflicting a chain-reaction crash that pinned one of many motorists between two automobiles,” JSO stated.
The pickup truck continued rolling backward down the bridge. When Melvin caught as much as the automobile, he discovered Bratulin “slumped over the wheel” and a passenger additionally unconscious.
Two males have been taken to the hospital with severe accidents, and Melvin suffered minor accidents.
Bartulin was arrested and faces six counts of DUI with property harm or private harm, driving underneath the affect, careless driving and failure to maneuver over for an emergency automobile.
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