Traffic & Transit
DUI Suspected In Weekend RI State Police Cruiser Crash
A state police cruiser was hit twice by a suspected drunken driver, police said.
PROVIDENCE, RI — A Rhode Island state trooper was injured when his cruiser was hit by a suspected drunken driver over the weekend, police said.
The crash happened around 2:30 a.m. on Sunday, police said, on Interstate 95 North at the Route 146 North merge.
According to police, the parked cruiser was rear-ended by a gray Toyota driven by 36-year-old Maksim Gorbachev of Pawtucket. After hitting the cruiser, Gorbachev tried to drive away, hitting the cruiser again.
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The trooper in the cruiser was taken to Rhode Island Hospital, where he was treated and later released, police said. Gorbachev was arrested and taken to the state police's Lincoln Woods Barracks under suspicion of drunken driving, where he was charged with driving to endanger resulting in physical injury, leaving the scene of an accident and refusing to take a chemical test.
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