{"id":532,"date":"2013-08-16T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2013-08-16T18:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T18:52:08","slug":"drunk-driver-rams-police-car-in-head-on-traffic-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/drunk-driver-rams-police-car-in-head-on-traffic-collision\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk Driver Rams Police Car in Head-On Traffic Collision in Massachusetts."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Massachusetts State Police arrested a man from Easthampton, MA last week. He was\u00a0criminally charged him with drunk driving after he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masslive.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2013\/08\/wrong_way_pike_driver_tries_to.html\">drove his car the wrong way<\/a> on the Massachusetts Turnpike and into a police cruiser on July 31, 2013.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/V3-5xNnqbaI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Zielenski was arraigned in Westfield District Court and charged with driving under the influence of alcohol, assault and battery with a deadly weapon, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident including property damage, driving in the wrong direction, and operating to endanger.<\/p>\n<p>Massachusetts State troopers received calls about a driver heading east in the westbound lane of the Massachusetts Turnpike at around 11 p.m. that evening.\u00a0 Two police cruisers were dispatched to intercept Zielenski, and prevent him from causing any more danger to other drivers on the road, as well as towards himself.\u00a0 He evaded the police by turning onto the shoulder.\u00a0 The troopers caught up with Zielenski near Exit 3.\u00a0 This is where trooper Joseph Tetrault says Zielenski rammed into the police car in a drunken <a href=\"http:\/\/boston-caraccidentlawyer.com\">car accident<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper in the vehicle struck by Zielenski was taken to the Noble Hospital emergency room, though he did not sustain life-threatening <a href=\"http:\/\/boston-injurylawyer.com\">personal injuries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drunk driving accidents like this one often yield much more serious injuries and even fatalities.\u00a0 Luckily, the officer involved in the head-on car crash was not critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>If you have sustained <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-information-lawyers-attorneys.php\">personal injuries<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span> or someone you know has been killed in a Massachusetts car accident, contact our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-auto-car-accident-injury-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Massachusetts auto accident attorneys<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-personal-injury-information-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Massachusetts personal injury attorneys<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-wrongful-death.php\">Massachusetts wrongful death attorneys<\/a> to learn all about your available options.\u00a0 Call us at <strong>617-787-3700<\/strong> to speak with a <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-auto-car-accident-injury-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston, MA car accident lawyer<\/a>, Boston personal injury lawyer or Boston, MA wrongful death lawyer, <strong>24\/7<\/strong>.\u00a0 Our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\">Boston, MA lawyers<\/a> can also be reached via email at <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-contact-gilbert-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\"><strong>info@gilhoylaw.com<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Please call our <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-about-gil-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\">Boston, Massachusetts law office<\/a> at <strong>617-787-3700<\/strong> or email us at <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/boston-massachusetts-contact-gilbert-hoy-lawyers-attorneys.php\"><strong>info@gilhoylaw.com<\/strong><\/a> for a <strong>free, confidential consultation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>We will help you. 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He was\u00a0criminally charged him with drunk driving after he drove his car the wrong way on the Massachusetts Turnpike and into a police cruiser on July 31, 2013.\u00a0 Jeffrey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/drunk-driver-rams-police-car-in-head-on-traffic-collision\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29,15,8,28,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":539,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532\/revisions\/539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilhoylaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}