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A top Hill cop was on her way home from work. A drunk driver had other ideas.
The cop, Lt. Holly Wasilewski (pictured in file photo), was driving her personal car on Martin Luther King Blvd. at Dwight Street around 11:20 p.m. Tuesday when she stopped behind another car at a red light. Another driver sped along and smashed his car into her vehicle.
“The impact was violent enough to force Wasilewski’s cruiser forward into the rear of the car in front of her,” reported police spokesman Officer David Hartman. Wasilewski went to Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment; today she’s sore but otherwise OK. The occupants of the car in front of hers were uninjured.
The driver of the car that smashed into Wasilewski’s vehicle was “rude and belligerent” — and smashed himself, according to Hartman.
Hartman further reported:
“After Officers Shayna Kendall and Lisa Wexler asked [the driver] if he’d perform a standardized field sobriety test, he replied, ‘Why bother, I’m intoxicated.’ He was taken to police headquarters and asked to submit to a blood alcohol test. He refused. He was asked to sign a refusal form. He refused that too.
“In a failed attempt at compassion, [he] asked the officers about those he injured. Sgt. Steven Teague told him they were OK, to which [the drunk driver] replied, ‘Just answer my [expletive] questions like a white boy!’”
Police charged the driver, who’s 42, with driving under the influence, too close to another vehicle, and too fast.