Hit A Tree, Couldn't Say Where: CT Man Charged In Putnam

SOUTHEAST, NY — A Connecticut driver who hit a tree somewhere on Route 312 with his Camry faces charges in New York, Putnam County Sheriff Robert L. Langley Jr. reported.

Sheriff Deputy Ronald Yeager was on routine patrol at 2:12 a.m. Feb. 2 when he was dispatched to Cameron’s Deli on Route 6 in response to a 911 call reporting an unconscious female inside a vehicle.

When Yeager arrived at the location, EMS personnel were already on the scene attending to a 22-year-old woman in the rear passenger seat of a 2004 Toyota Camry. Yeager noted that the rear passenger door of the vehicle was severely dented and the window had been shattered.

Yeager noted Maxwell J. Archer of New Milford, CT and another woman, who was later identified as being the front seat passenger, standing outside the car.

An investigation revealed that Archer was the driver of the vehicle. Police allege he had a BAC of .12 percent.

Archer told Yeager that he had hit a tree somewhere on Route 312, but could not say exactly where, and that he called 911 from Cameron’s Deli to report the unconscious passenger. She was revived on the scene and was removed to Putnam Hospital Center complaining of neck and head pain.

An open bottle of whiskey was recovered from inside the car, police said.

Archer, 22, was charged with two misdemeanor counts of Driving While Intoxicated, one misdemeanor count of Leaving the Scene of a Personal Injury Auto Accident and was issued a Uniform Traffic Ticket for the Open Container of Alcohol.

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