DWI Charge After Woman's Car Crashes With Police Car, Flips: PD

PORT JEFFERSON, NY — A Coram woman was charged with driving while intoxicated after she crashed a car into an occupied patrol car and her car flipped over in Port Jefferson Station early Saturday morning, Suffolk police said.

Janet Marlowe was driving a 2005 Honda Civic northbound on Route 112 near Sagamore Hills Drive at about 12:13 a.m., when she crashed the car into a patrol car that was parked “facing northbound on the shoulder with emergency lights activated,” police said. The force of the crash caused her car to flip over, according to police.

The patrol car had been at the scene of an earlier motor vehicle crash, police said.

The officer who was in the patrol car was transported to a local hospital for treatment of “minor injuries,” police said. It was not immediately clear if Marlowe was also injured.

Marlowe, 42, is being held overnight at the 4th Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Saturday.