![[CREDIT: Rob Borkowski] Warwick Police Department. On Jan. 30, WPD arrested a driver on a DUI charge after she reportedly struck a curb at the Post Road roundabout launching her Highlander airborne.](https://e8dgfhu6pow.exactdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/WPD-cruiser-left-336x237-1.jpg?strip=all&lossy=1&ssl=1)
WARWICK, RI — A 39-year-old Portsmouth, RI lady will seem in Third District Courtroom March 31 to reply a DUI charge after she struck an SUV within the WFD lot then launched her Toyota Highlander airborne on the Publish Street rotary Jan. 30.
Officer Katerina Athaide was known as to the Warwick Fireplace Division, 2373 West Shore Road lot at 9:17 p.m. Jan. 30 for a report of a drunk driver working erratically, putting a parked Land Rover SUV. The proprietor of the Land Rover, who had pulled into the lot behind the Highlander driving a WFD rescue, noticed the driving force again into her automobile. She bought out of the Rescue and requested the Highlander driver to place her automobile in park, however the lady stated no, and drove away, in accordance with the officer’s report.
Driver experiences Highlander airborne, leads police to driver
Shortly after, police acquired experiences that the Highlander driver had gone via the Publish Street rotary, putting the middle curb and sending the Highlander airborne, practically putting one other automobile. The motive force reporting that near-crash adopted the Highlander till police arrived to tug over the driving force, in accordance with Athaide’s report.
The motive force was recognized as Alexandria Gallucci, 39, of 32 Holliston Ave., Portsmouth, RI. She initially agreed to carry out sobriety exams and stepped barefoot out of the Highlander, stumbling and practically falling over as officers helped her placed on a pair of trainers. She finally refused to to take the exams, and Athaide arrested her on suspicion of DUI, transporting her to Warwick Police Headquarters, 99 Veterans Memorial Drive.
The Highlander had sufffered injury to the passenger aspect of the automobile and the passenger aspect door deal with was lacking. Moreover, the entrance bumper of the automobile was damaged and cracked. There have been obvious marks the place the automobile struck the site visitors indicators. The automobile was subsequently towed from the scene by Leo’s Towing.
At WPD HQ, Gallucci refused to take a breath check of her blood alcohol content material, and was incoherent and sometimes non-responsive when Athaide tried to query her, in accordance with the report. She was charged with DUI, blood alcohol content material unknown, and cited for refusing the check. She was later launched to the custody of a sober grownup and scheduled for an arraignment in Third District Courtroom on Feb. 13 and launched on $1,000 private recognizance, adopted by a listening to on March 17, continued until March 31.
