Crime & Safety

Nun Charged With DUI, Sobriety Test Caught On Camera

A nun has reportedly been charged with DUI after she backed her pick-up truck into a South Jersey business and left the scene.

A Philadelphia nun has reportedly been charged with DUI in South Jersey after she backed her pick-up truck into a business and left the scene of the accident.

Her sobriety test was captured on camera by eyewitnesses.

According to a report by FOX29, “shocked witnesses” took photos of the nun as she took the sobriety test after being pulled over shortly after the crash.

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The woman, who FOX29 identified as a Philadelphia nun, backed into the door of the Meineke Auto Shop in Turnersville before leaving and getting pulled over.

The store’s manager was later notified by police that the person responsible for hitting the car was an intoxicated nun who was later arrested, FOX29 reported.

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“Randomly that someone hit your building and then to find out it was a nun who happened to be drunk at almost 3 in the morning on a Friday night it’s not something you expect to walk into on a Saturday morning,” the store’s manager, Manager Peter DeGeorge, said in an on-air interview.

The nun, who the news network reached by phone at her convent, said she had no comment.

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