DWAI

Police charged George Hackett, 52, of Wading River with Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs and Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance following an early morning crash that claimed the life of an 81-year-old Queens man.

The driver of a Ford Explorer that had been reported stolen was charged with felony possession of stolen property and driving while impaired by drugs.

A Calverton woman was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle yesterday morning in Southold.

A Wading River woman told police that she had “sniffed a bag of dope” several hours before she drove impaired and struck a Flanders man on a lawnmower yesterday, according to prosecutors.

A Flanders landscaper was critically injured yesterday when a Wading River woman police say was impaired by drugs hit him while he was mowing a lawn in Ridge.

Southold Town Police said the driver in a single car crash admitted to using Angel Dust and pot before crash that injured his female passenger, who was found unconscious outside the vehicle when officers arrived.

A 53-year-old Hampton Bays woman is charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs after a head-on collision on Flanders Road that killed her 80-year-old father and injured her 16-year-old son yesterday.