Concord Woman Arrested After Crash On 3rd Drunken Driving Charge

CONCORD, NH — A Concord woman is facing drunken driving and other charges after a crash in the eastern part of the city last month.

On Nov. 1, police were sent to Garvins Falls Road for a report of a woman, who appeared to be intoxicated, slumped over in a parked vehicle. The witness, who made the call around 7 p.m., told police that they woke the driver up. After that, the woman backed the vehicle, a black Kia Sportage, into another vehicle, and drove off onto Manchester Street.

The reporting officer ran the plate that was reported and found the SUV was owned by a man on Highridge Trail. The officer went to the home and found the SUV in the driveway.

"I observed some damage to the rear and front license plates, that the dome light was on, and a pack of beer in the rear window," the officer wrote in an affidavit. "I also saw that the vehicle was not parked straight in the driveway (with) two front tires parked off the paved portion of the driveway on the grass."

The officer knocked on the door of the home and spoke to the owner who said he had not been driving the vehicle. When asked if anyone else was in the home, the man said Betsy Mae Glidden, 48, was also inside of the home. The officer requested to speak with her and when they did, she denied driving that night and said she had been home all night, according to the affidavit.

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"As she spoke, I observed that her speech was slurred and slow," the officer said.

The man was asked if Glidden had been home and he said he had been napping and did not know. When asked if she was home when he started his nap, the man she was not, the affidavit said.

Glidden was asked about the damage to the Kia but "continued to deny" she had been driving. She was asked to step outside and when she did, she was "unsteady on her feet and had trouble maintaining balance," the officer said.

While speaking with Glidden about the front and rear damage to the Kia, the officer noticed she was steadying herself by grabbing onto an awning and had difficulty maintaining her balance, the report said. A second officer was asked to get a description of the woman from the witness and alleged Glidden was wearing the same clothes, the affidavit said.

The second officer gathered more information from Garvins Falls Road including another SUV that was damaged. No notes were left at or on the vehicle indicating to the other vehicle's owner that there was an accident or acknowledging responsibility for damage to the SUV, he told the reporting officer.

Glidden was asked to take a field sobriety test, refused, and was placed under arrest. The officer accused her of emitting a strong odor of alcohol while in the back of his cruiser during transportation to headquarters, the report said.

A check of her record yielded two other drunk driving convictions from November 2013 and October 2018 in Concord District Court. Her license was also suspended after the second conviction, the officer said. Glidden was processed on DUI-third, driving after revocation or suspension, and conduct after an accident charges and held.

Editor's note: This post was derived from information supplied by the Concord Police Department and Concord District Court and does not indicate a conviction. This link explains the removal request process for New Hampshire Patch police reports.

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