Driver In Multi-Vehicle Crash Had Drugs In Car: Report

Fairfield Police are continuing to investigate Sunday night’s multi-car crash that sent four people to the hospital, including an 8-year-old boy, and say the 21-year-old woman who triggered the crash was found to have marijuana and anti-psychotic pills in her car, according to the Connecticut Post.

The Post reports the unidentified woman, who hasn’t been charged at this point, was observed by witnesses as driving the wrong way down the Post Road at “highway speed” as she entered the Post Road/Kings Highway Cutoff traffic circle and her car crashed head-on into the pickup truck of a family of three.

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The woman had to be extricated from her car and suffered “complex, compound fractures” to both her legs, according to the Post.

The family in the pickup was treated and released from the hospital.

Read the full report at the Connecticut Post here.