Crime & Safety
Prison Time For Wrong-Way Parkway Driver
He smashed into a car full of visitors from Florida while driving with drugs and alcohol in his system at 3 a.m.
A Manhattan man accused of injuring six people in a head-on crash while driving the wrong way on the Bronx River Parkway in the middle of the night has been sentenced to 1-3 years in prison, Westchester County District Attorney Anthony A. Scarpino, Jr. announced.
Caceres was driving his 2012 Nissan Murano south in the northbound lanes of the Bronx River Parkway at 3 a.m. Feb. 9, 2018. He was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
At the DeWittAvenue Bridge in Yonkers, he collided head-on with an oncoming Dodge Durango carrying six passengers who were visiting from Florida. Two of them sustained serious physical injuries, which required hospitalization. He was arraigned in his hospital bed.
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Caceres, 37, pleaded guilty in December to Aggravated Vehicular Assault, a class C felony.
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