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Woman Charged With DUI After Passing Out In February Crash In Fairfield

FAIRFIELD, Conn. — A Bridgeport woman was charged with driving under the influence Monday after Fairfield police received a medical report from a Feb. 22 car accident on lower Black Rock Turnpike, police said.

Michelle Stanford

Michelle Stanford

Photo Credit: Courtesy of Fairfield Police Department

Michelle Stanford, 44, of Monroe Street, was arrested at her home and charged with operating a vehicle under the influence and following too close, police said. She was being held on $20,000 bond.

Stanford was sent to St. Vincent’s Medical Center when she was found unconscious in her mother’s Volvo after striking a pickup truck on lower Black Rock Turnpike at 6:15 p.m. Feb. 22, police said.

Witnesses told police that she failed to stop for the light at Brewster Street and Canfield Avenue just over the Bridgeport border. She proceeded north on Black Rock Turnpike, where she ran into the back of a pickup truck at the entrance to BJ’s Wholesale Club, according to police reports.

Police said she was unresponsive when officers arrived and they could smell what they thought was the odor of crack cocaine emanating from the car. Fairfield K9 Maverick was called to the scene and indicated the presence of drugs in the center console and door of the car, police said.

Police said they found burnt marijuana “blunts” in the car.

The woman woke up and asked officers where she was and what was going on, according to the police said report. Police said she told them she had smoked marijuana earlier in the day.

She has 12 previous motor vehicle violations in Connecticut, including a DUI charge, police said. Her driver’s license expired in January.

She complained her head hurt and she was taken to St. Vincent’s by ambulance. Blood work showed evidence of marijuana and PCP in her system, police said.

A man and a child in the pickup truck were not injured, police said. 

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