DUI Arrest

Police report that motorist John Simpson, 73, of 11 Deerfield Drive was driving a vehicle eastward on Church Hill Road, near its intersection with Glen Road, about 12:19 am January 6, when Simpson crossed over the street’s double-yellow lines twice before making a right turn into a parking lot without signaling to do so.

Police said they stopped Simpson to investigate and then charged him with driving under the influence, failure to drive to the right, and failure to signal for a turn.

Police said they held Simpson on $1,000 bail for a January 6 arraignment in Danbury Superior Court.

DUI Incident

Police said that at about 1 am on January 6, they stopped motorist Marc Levine, 54, of Fairfield for crossing over the road’s center lines near 228 South Main Street.

After investigating, police said they charged Levine with driving under the influence and with failure to drive to the right.

After processing, police released Levine on $100 bail for a January 19 court appearance.

Evading

At about 9:30 am on December 31 in snowy conditions, motorist Frank Magliocco, 50, of Alberts Hill Road, who was driving a commercial 2006 Chrysler southward near 32 Echo Valley Road, spotted a northbound oil tanker truck approaching, so he attempted to slow the Chrysler, but it went out of control on the snowy road and traveled off the left side of the street, striking a tree and pushing that tree into a stone wall, police said.

The Chrysler did not make contact with another vehicle, police said. Magliocco was not injured.

Police said they later learned of the accident from a resident of 32 Echo Valley Road who found the Chrysler at the end of his driveway without its driver present.

Police said they issued Magliocco a misdemeanor summons on charges of evading responsibility and failure to drive to the right.

Berkshire Road

In snowy conditions about 1:40 pm December 31, motorist Jorge Martinez-Chavarria, 31, of West Haven, who was driving a 2006 Mitsubishi Galant sedan eastward on Berkshire Road near its intersection with Bradley Lane, slowed for traffic conditions, but skidded on the slippery street, police said.

In veering to avoid colliding with another vehicle, Martinez-Chavarria drove across the road and struck a utility pole, creating an electrical outage in the area, police said. Martinez-Chavarria was not injured. Police gave him an infraction for following too closely.

Boggs Hill Crash

During snowy conditions about 1:26 pm December 31, motorist Blake Ashmon Urquhart, 18, of 23 Split Rock Road, who was driving a 2000 Audi A-6 sedan eastward near 117 Boggs Hill Road, lost control of the auto on a curve, went off the side of the road and collided with a utility pole, police said.

Urquhart was not injured. Police issued a written warning for traveling too fast for conditions.