Driver Uses Car To Keep Trucker Off Freeway: "Truck Driver Later Charged With DWI
POSTED: 10:56 am CDT April 14, 2005
CASTLE CREEK, N.Y. -- A New York man who says he lost a close friend to a drunken driver -- and didn't want to see it happen to anyone else -- used his car to block a tractor-trailer from pulling onto a highway because he thought the trucker was drunk.
Michael Scanlon's vehicle wound up being rammed by the truck.
State police said Scanlon saw the truck hit the overhead canopy at a gas station Wednesday north of Binghamton, N.Y. The father of four followed the truck and blocked its path as it tried to get on Interstate 81.
A short time after the truck rammed Scanlon's car, troopers arrived and arrested the trucker. The Canadian truck driver was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving. "
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