A Virginia state trooper is recovering after an impaired driver hit her patrol automobile whereas she was stopped with one other motorist for allegedly driving below the affect.
Virginia State Police stated Trooper C. Aziz responded to a sedan stopped within the northbound lane of Interstate 495 in Fairfax County at round 3 a.m. on Tuesday.
The driving force of the sedan was nonetheless contained in the automobile and refusing to cooperate with the trooper’s requests to exit or transfer the automobile to safer location, state police stated.
Whereas Aziz was coping with the sedan driver, a Jeep Cherokee struck a tractor-trailer that was stopped in a journey lane due to the place the sedan had stopped.
The Jeep hit the tractor-trailer so exhausting that it spun round and struck the trooper’s patrol automobile, which induced the patrol automobile to hit the sedan that was pulled over and the trooper, who was standing outdoors the sedan’s driver-side door.
Dashcam footage from the trooper’s patrol automobile confirmed the incident, which “amazingly” solely left the trooper with minor accidents, police stated. She was taken to Fairfax INOVA Hospital to be evaluated.
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The driving force of the Jeep was recognized as Joanna Hatch, 35. She was arrested for driving inebriated, police stated.
Erica Bernard, 43, was the motive force of the sedan stopped on the facet of the interstate and he or she was additionally arrested. She faces fees of driving below the affect of medication, obstruction, possession of a schedule 1 or 2 substance, refusal of a breathalyzer/blood take a look at and improperly stopping a automobile on a freeway.
Each Hatch and Bernard have been taken to the Fairfax County Grownup Detention Middle.
