Driver Admits To Taking Heroin Before Crashing Into Tree: Cops

FAIRFIELD, CT — A driver who had taken heroin before getting behind the wheel was injured after he crashed a pickup truck into a large tree Saturday in Fairfield, according to police.

The incident occurred before 5 p.m. on Gilbert Highway near North Street, a police report said. A witness told law enforcement he came upon the scene of the crash and offered to call the police department and an ambulance for the driver, who was still sitting inside the truck, according to the report. The driver was unsteady on his feet but told the witness not to call police, the report said.

Officers on scene found a Nissan Titan registered to a man who turned out to be the driver's father, according to the report. The truck's airbag was deployed and its windshield was cracked.

Police went to the truck owner's Gilbert Highway address, where they found the driver with a large cut on his forehead and pinpointed pupils, a symptom of opioid overdose, the report said. The driver told the officers he had reached down to look for his cellphone and driven off the road, hitting the tree, but also admitted to having ingested two bags of heroin about two hours before the crash, according to the report.

The driver was taken by ambulance to St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, the report said.