By SUE SUCHYTA
Sunday Times Newspapers
RIVERVIEW — A 62-year-old Trenton woman with a prior operating while impaired offense was involved in a hit-and-run incident the evening of Nov. 12 on Fort Street near King Road.
One witness followed the offender and reported the driver’s license plate number, which was associated with a Trenton woman’s white Chevy Blazer.
Trenton police officers went to the suspect’s residence and found driver and the damaged vehicle. They then allowed a Riverview police officer to take the woman into custody.
The woman, who smelled of intoxicants and spoke with slurred speech, admitted to drinking earlier. She subsequently failed several standardized field sobriety tests.
A preliminary breath test was administered, and the woman had a blood-alcohol content of 0.18, more than twice the 0.08 limit for legally drunk in Michigan.
She was then taken into custody and taken to Corewell Health Hospital in Trenton for a blood draw.
Because it was the women’s second operating while impaired offense, her license plate was confiscated, destroyed and replaced with a paper plate, and her vehicle was impounded and towed.