Crime & Safety
Drunken Woman Injures Pedestrian In Mount Sinai Crash: Police
The woman faces a DWI charge after police said she crashed into a parked truck, a man on a bicycle and objects on a residence.
MOUNT SINAI, NY - A woman was arrested after Suffolk police said she crashed into a man with her car in Mount Sinai early Saturday.
Jennifer Hohn, 40, of St. James, was driving a 2018 Toyota northbound in front of the 700-block of Mount Sinai-Coram Road, when she crashed the car into a parked 2010 GMC pickup truck occupied by a man and woman and then hit a man on a bicycle who was leaning against the truck from the right shoulder of the road at 2:27 a.m., police said. Hohn then crashed the Toyota into a sign, a mailbox and a fence, police said.
The pedestrian, a 40-year-old Port Jefferson Station man, was treated at Stony Brook University Hospital for serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
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Hohn was charged with DWI by Highway Selective Alcohol Fatality Enforcement Team (SAFE-T) officers following an investigation by Sixth Squad detectives. She was held overnight at the Sixth Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Saturday.
Detectives are asking anyone who witnessed the incident to call the Sixth Squad at 631-854-8652.
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