Crime & Safety

AUDIO: Caller Leads Mansfield Police To Alleged Drugged Driver

The driver was found stopped on the ramp to Interstate 495 South on Route 140.

MANSFIELD, MA — A driver is being credited for reporting another driver who was allegedly operating a vehicle under the influence of drugs.

Mansfield Police received a call from a driver Tuesday morning who said she saw a vehicle being driven in an erratic manning on Reservoir Street in Norton before continuing on South Main Street towards the Interstate 495 North on-ramp. The caller said the vehicle was swerving and was in someone's yard before turning left towards the highway. A short time later, the caller provided play-by-play for the way the vehicle came to a halt.

"She almost just took out a car...and she just went off the highway and back on, oh good lord, she just, oh my God, she just went up and over the side, over the curb and into the guard rail and now she's just at a stop," the caller told the dispatcher.

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Photos at the scene show the vehicle stopped with a flat tire and partially in the median on Route 140 North towards Interstate 495 North.

The driver of the vehicle being operated erratically will face charges of drugged driving, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, operating with a suspended license, possession of an open container of alcohol inside a motor vehicle, and marked lanes violation.

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The name of the driver will not be released until she's arraigned in Attleboro District Court, police said.

Below is the full audio:



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