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By Abigail Crocker
From the Narragansett-So. Kingstown Patch
Drunk Vespa driver tears up leg:
A 35-year-old Shannock man, was arrested at about 3:14 a.m. on Aug. 19 and charged
with drunken driving.
According to police,
they received a report of an accident involving a Vespa-style motor scooter on
Tuckertown Road near Tuckertown Park. The man allegedly told police that he
lost control when a deer stepped into the roadway, and also that he had had too
much to drink.
Police noted the man's severe leg injury — the driver had muscle bulging from his leg, breaking the skin. As a result, field sobriety tests were not conducted, but because the man allegedly appeared to be intoxicated he was arrested and charged with drunken driving.
The driver reportedly
told police that while at a bar, he had three 16-ounce beers and two shots of
vodka before leaving at 2:30 a.m.
Bridge jumper clings to crustacean cluster
A man who jumped from the Jamestown Verrazzano Bridge last
Saturday night got another chance at life after surviving the 135-foot
fall.
The Jamestown
Harbormaster received a call that a man had jumped from the bridge's center
span and into Narragansett Bay around 8:30 p.m. He found the
man clinging to a mass of mussels and calling "help me, help me."
According to rescue
personnel, the man did not break any limbs in the fall but most likely
sustained internal injuries.
Woman uses train tracks as personal parking
lot
A Hopkinton woman was arrested around 8:45 p.m. on Aug. 30, for
drunk driving after police were dispatched to the train tracks near Admiral
Kalbfus Road in Newport for a report of a vehicle stuck on the
tracks.
She reportedly drove
her car onto the tracks, thinking it was the parking lot for Mama Leone's. She
said she was trying to pull into the parking lot and mistook the train tracks
for the entrance.
When asked why she
wanted to park there, she said she wanted to walk onto the Navy Base, where her
boat was located. She reportedly told police she could not drive onto the base
because she had had too much to drink.
Three vehicles plus one accident equals two
arrests
Johnston Police made a drunk driving arrest and cited another driver for having stolen license plates after a recent accident that involved a car and two motorcycles.
The car driver, whom officers said appeared intoxicated, was charged with drunk driving. One of the motorcycle drivers was charged with possession of stolen goods and is out on personal recognizance until his Sept. 29 pretrial hearing.