Crime & Safety
Officer Hurt After Drunken Driver Rear-Ends Police Car: Cops
A Suffolk police officer was stopping another car when a drunken driver rear-ended the police car early New Year's Day.
HUNTINGTON, NY — A man who drunkenly crashed his car into the back of a police cruiser was arrested in Huntington early Friday, Suffolk police said.
A Second Precinct officer stopped a 2005 Chrysler Pacifica on eastbound Pulaski Road, near Frazer Drive, at around 12:20 a.m., police said. The officer was inside the police car, which was stopped off the roadway with its lights and flashers on, when an eastbound 2019 Honda Accord driven by William Macari, 54, of Greenlawn, crashed into it from behind, police said. The rear-end collision caused the police car to hit the back of the Pacifica, police said.
The police officer suffered injuries that are not life-threatening and was airlifted to Stony Brook University Hospital, police said. Macari and the driver of the Pacifica were not injured.
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Macari was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. He was held overnight at the Second Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Friday.
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