Crime & Safety

WATCH: Drunk Driver Leaves Mile-Long Trail of Destruction Through Brooklyn

A Dash Cam captured the fiery drive of shame.

Screenshot via Joseph D./YouTube

The most determined drunk driver in Brooklyn took a mile-long joy ride down Avenue I in Flatbush on Saturday night — running red lights, sideswiping parked cars, weaving into oncoming traffic and crashing into street signs.

The driver also managed to crash head-on into cars parked on the opposite side of the street, multiple times. But even that couldn’t stop him from reversing his car and continuing his journey.

Lucky for us the rubbernecking public, a YouTube user named Joseph D. had his Dash Cam turned on the entire time.

“Got this on my Dashcam last night in Brooklyn,” he wrote on Oct. 3.

According to Joseph D., he started filming around McDonald Avenue and Avenue I, then headed east down Avenue I until East 15th Street.

“If anyone knows any owners of the cars that got hit let them know,” he wrote.

Below is his Dash Cam footage, beginning around the one-minute mark.


About halfway through the drive, our hero apparently snags a piece of debris from one of the cars he hits, causing his own car to go up in sparks and smoke — yet still, he drives on.

Nobody was hurt that we know of, so go on, laugh until you cry. We’ve reached out to Joseph D. for more on happened once the car crashed into its final resting place. However, he writes on YouTube that he was on the phone with police until they arrived at the scene.

ABC7 reports that the driver is now facing a DWI charge.


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