SUV Hits Curb, Driver Faces DUI Charge June 16

WARWICK, RI — Officer Tyler Luiz was driving close to the intersection of West Shore Highway and Warwick Avenue Could 3 at 3:10 a.m. when he noticed a grey 2012 Ford Escape going west on Airport Highway veer right into a curb, stopping and arresting the motive force on a DUI charge.

Luiz initially thought the abrupt flip was an try to drag in at a close-by Speedway fuel station, however when the SUV struck the curb, elevating the car, “considerably,” in keeping with the officer’s report, then corrected and continued west, he started following it.

Luiz pulled the SUV over within the breakdown lane on Airport Highway simply after Elmhurst Highway, and requested help. The officer spoke with the motive force, figuring out her as  Ciara L. Peltier, 29, of 173 Quarry St., East Windfall, RI. He requested in regards to the abrupt flip and curb strike.

DUI cost follows cease, sobriety exams

Peltier, whose eyes appeared bloodshot, advised the officer she had been trying up an tackle on her GPS gadget, and that she had additionally had a margarita at a good friend’s home, in keeping with the report. Officer Kristopher Orellana arrvied to help within the site visitors cease, and the officers requested Peltier to carry out sobriety exams, which she agreed to do.

In the course of the exams, Peltier demonstrated an absence of clean pursuit in her imaginative and prescient, stepped off-line throughout a stroll and switch check and put her foot down repeatedly throughout a one-leg stand. Luiz and Orellana arrested her on suspicion of driving drunk. Luiz transported her to Warwick Police Headquarters, 99 Veterans Memorial Drive. Orellana stayed to oversee a tow for her SUV.

On the station, Peltier refused to undergo a breath check of her blood alcohol degree. She was launched on $1,000 private recognizance bail and scheduled for a June 2 pretrial convention in Third District Courtroom, later rescheduled until June 16.