Drunken Patchogue Woman Fled Scene Of Crash With Kids In Car: PD

PATCHOGUE, NY — A Patchogue woman was arrested after allegedly leaving the scene of a car crash while driving drunk with two children in the car in Shirley on Wednesday afternoon, according to Suffolk Police. Brooke Wirshup, 27, was driving her 2018 Hyundai Elantra with the children in the car when she rear-ended another car on William Floyd Parkway, at the intersection of Dawn Drive, at 2:45 p.m., police said.

Wirshup then fled the scene in the car, police said. A short time later, an officer saw Wirshup’s car near Revilo Avenue, and Victory Avenue, at 3:05 p.m., police said. When the officer approached the car, she saw the two children, ages three and seventeen months, in the back seat.

Wirshup was charged with DWI, aggravated DWI with a child passenger 15-years-old or younger under Leandra’s Law, aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, two counts of endangering the welfare of a child, and leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, police said. The children were released to the custody of a relative at the scene.

She was held overnight at the Fourth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday.