Drivers Charged With DWI In 2 Separate Long Valley Incidents

LONG VALLEY, NJ — Two drivers were charged over the holiday weekend in separate DWI incidents, one on Friday, the other on Saturday.

The Washington Township Police Department reports that this past Friday, an unidentified 35-year-old Long Valley man crashed into a tree at about 9:20 p.m. on Hacklebarney Road, with responding officers finding both the driver and his passenger standing outside of the car when they arrived to the scene. In that incident, the driver was charged not only with DWI, but refusal to submit breath samples, reckless driving, driving while suspended, being an unlicensed driver, failure to keep right, failure to maintain the lane and for having unsafe tires.

In the second incident at about 9:30 p.m. near Schooley’s Mountain Road and Camp Washington Road this past Saturday, the police department states that an unknown 57-year-old woman from Stewartsville was charged with DWI after she hit a guardrail. The Long Valley First Aid Squad took her to Hackettstown Medical Center, according to a police department news release, “due to the nature of the crash and the driver’s level of intoxication.” In addition to the DWI charges, she additionally faces charges for reckless driving, failure to keep right and failure to maintain the lane.

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