Suspended Detroit Police
officer arrested after reportedly driving drunk, causing crash
DETROIT (WXYZ) - A Detroit
Police Officer on suspension is arrested for driving drunk after crashing into
another vehicle just before 1 p.m. today.
“I’m just hoping my daughter is
okay,” said Naomi Gaither.
Gaither’s daughter was driving
in the car the officer hit. Her daughter
went to the hospital right after the accident.
She had a friend in the car with her.
No one knew anything was wrong with the friend until he grabbed his
chest and collapsed a short time later.
A group of people screamed for
the officer’s to call another ambulance.
“Oh my God. Officer! Officer!”
Friends yelled for police to
call another ambulance. Police tell 7
Action News that the suspended police officer was driving drunk.
“She just didn’t yield and
didn’t stop and slammed right into them,” said Gaither.
When she first heard the driver
that hit her daughter might be a police officer she got even angrier.
“I would be really mortified
and highly upset,” said Gaither.
Her daughter was driving a
white car and the suspended officer was driving a gray SUV. The girl was driving eastbound on Plymouth
Road and the suspended officer was driving in the opposite direction. The suspended officer turned in front of the
girl and hit her.
“She just didn’t yield and
didn’t stop and slammed right into them,” said Gaither.
Gaither said the suspended
officer tried to flee from the crash.
“Thank God that the police
chief and the police officers who work under him responded so quickly. They diffused her because she did try to hit
and run,” said Gaither.
Police arrested the suspended
officer for operating a motor vehicle while impaired.
“I hope this is a lesson for
someone else. If you’re 21 and older and
you’re going to be responsible enough to drink, be responsible enough not to
get in the car and endanger other people that’s around you,” said Gaither.
Detroit Police are still not
saying why the officer was on suspension.
