Report: Hospital Didn't Test for Drugs After Major Crash Injures Victim

After a four-vehicle crash on Silvermine Road that led to serious injuries for a Stamford teenager, police asked Norwalk Hospital for a drug test on the woman later accused of causing it, the New Canaanite news website reported.

But that didn’t happen, and although New Canaan police thought they had a case to charge the woman, Carol Sung, 51, of 136 Harrison Ave., with driving while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, the Norwalk prosecutors office declined to press that charge, according to the report.

Instead, Sung was charged with reckless driving, a misdemeanor. She was arrested March 19. The event data recorder for Sung’s vehicle showed she was driving at about twice the 30 mph posted speed limit and also showed she didn’t brake before hitting a 2013 BMW in front of her, police said last week.

The New Canaanite report cited arrest warrant affidavits in the case that haven’t yet been made public in state Superior Court in Norwalk. Those affidavits are normally made public on the day a defendant first appears in court. Sung is scheduled to appear in court on April 14, according to the Connecticut Judicial Branch Website. She is represented by the Gulash & Riccio law firm of Greenwich.

According to the affidavits, police said Sung didn’t pass any of the field sobriety tests administered at the scene, appeared disoriented just after the crash, contradicted herself She was treated at the hospital for a bloody nose, according to the report. She told police she was en route to pick up her daughter, but had passed an intersection she to get there, and asked police if she was on Harrison Road, the report said.

The accident on Silvermine Rd., just east of its intersection with Clapboard Hill Road, sent Stamford resident Michael Bivona Jr., then 18 years old and now 19, to Norwalk Hospital unconscious. He was later transferred to Yale-New Haven hospital for further treatment of his injuries and by Nov. 19 had been released from the hospital and was recuperating, police said.