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here for now my God I just have the uh the one lane blocked off coming across the bridge from Red Bank it's just around 2 6 a.m. on September 15th 2024 patrolman John Mania with the Middletown Township Police Department responded to the scene of a motor vehicle crash on hubard Avenue dispatch advised him that a hysterical female had reported that she struck a pole upon arrival patrolman Mania noticed that a white 2020 Ford Explorer had struck a utility pole and sustained severe frontend damages there was air airbag deployment inside the vehicle he made contact with 23-year-old Savannah who was identified as the driver of the Ford Explorer uh do you have your uh your license and everything is it in the car I'm able to get it no I'll get it for you what was it in like a purse or something yeah it's in the passenger seat on the purse okay do you what what happened where were you coming from I was I don't I was coming from Red Bank my I was on the phone with my mom just upset about stuff and I don't even know what happened where uh where in Red Bank were you my cousin's house your cousin's okay it was my first time being there but I can get the address up okay no that's all right um and you're not hurt at all no I'm okay you sure yeah I'm just shaking up I I had a hard time getting out of the car but that was all okay guys I'm good you no I know I just I just want to tell you that uh I live me I live right there and me and her we were just go about to go to wa get a cheese Ste and we had our air po so bad it's your birthday we going for a walk that's not no can you just let me it's fine did you did you guys see the accident or no I did not see it that's fine then please I live right here I see I see accidents all the time yeah you guys are going to go just don't uh yeah don't uh walk on this side don't walk on this side if you can um just yeah walk uh through this person's yard or something yeah yeah just okay all right we just walk through there that's fine all right that's fine they're they're they're not involved they're not involved they're they're just going to WWA yeah it's same poll every time no I didn't call the poll on yet oh my God I is the pole okay like I I I don't even know I'm sorry I like I was on the phone with my mom but I wasn't like on the phone it was connected to my car okay so I don't even know I've never had the airbags go off in my car or anything like that okay you said you were your cousin's house yeah she just moved to Red Bank I I don't know the address on the top of my head but I know it in my maps okay yeah I don't need to know the where do you live I live in Flemington Flemington is that where you were going right now yeah okay is this your uh your bottle right here or whatever it's mine I just I was drinking water when I got out because I was just like so overwhelmed okay she's not Hur anything if can you can I drink some if you smell it it's just water uh just uh hang out one one second unless you really need to you didn't call the plate in yet right no I wasn't sure if it was going to be what it was going to be obviously we need to just one uh I mean from talking right like I mean I wasn't close enough to sow anything I mean she's that other girl came out of her house she she like hammered and she's like I live right here we're just going to W I walk away from you no no no no y uh I'm still talking to her yeah I don't not her license is in the car somewhere in like a purse but Savannah told patrolman Mania that she had been at her friend's place in Red Bank earlier that evening when he asked her if she had anything to drink she initially admitted to consuming alcohol a few hours prior but she would later admit to probably consuming alcohol even later in the evening patrolman Allen arrived on scene shortly afterwards to take the motor vehicle accident report uh what's your name my name yeah Savannah Savannah okay Savannah happened I have to take the crash report for this just tell me what happened yeah I I I honestly I think I was just like on the phone with my mom and I was talking to her about some stuff that was making me upset and I I don't even know I just drove into the pole I guess okay I've never had my airbags go off in my car or anything so it's my first time I went out the back door it was crazy does anything hurt on me yeah no okay you want an ambulance to check you out just cuz the airbags or no I'm okay all right everything's in the car all like the insurance your driver's license oh yeah yeah it's all in the passenger seat it's in the glove compartment in a little book booklet okay you don't mind if I get it no not at all when uh when you were at your cousin's house did you have anything to drink tonight I had a drink like a couple hours ago but that was it okay what what kind of drink I had a Cosmopolitan about 8:00 ping the road or blocking the roadway a c down the street from me H yeah probably it's all connected to the pole from this Pole right though yeah yeah oh okay the pulse it's all broken I mean at the bottom oh my God were were you texting or something or you were just on the phone I was on the phone with her I was looking at Maps so I it was my fault definitely but like I was distracted all right just hang out here for one second hey she said she said she had like one drink at like 8:00 but uh how cold is she uh I'm going to find out the second fo probably at least check hgn on her so uh yeah she said she had a drink like around 8:00 but uh I'm I might just like check h on there probably just make sure that she sounds fine I don't know where first got here I mean not that she doesn't sound fine but she just like was confused how she had the pole like I mean it just SS like she was distracted if you want if you want to all right so man just uh just based on the accident like that you said you had the one drink I just want to check to make sure your eyes are good real quick um we're just going to stand on the sidewalk in a second once you get off the phone yeah and then I'm just going to uh check that do an eye check okay yeah yeah okay yeah that's fine okay yeah you're on the phone with I got I got to go okay well love you by all right so uh all right so uh what I need you to do is stand with your feet together based on patrolman mania's suspicion of impairment Savannah was asked to perform field sobriety exercises the first exercise was the horizontal gaze nmas hgm test and patrolman Mania observed a lack of smooth Pursuit distinct and sustained nmas at maximum deviation and the onset of nagus prior to 45 degrees no vertical gaze nagus was observed the second exercise was the walk and turn test during the walk and turn test Savannah failed to touch Heel To Toe on each step and turned in properly the final exercise was the one leg stand test and Savannah failed to raise her foot in the proper fashion and put her foot down multiple times before the test was complete y uh and your hands at your side just keep in your pockets for now do you have any uh problems with your eyes do you wear glass or contacts no I got lasic like a year ago so I have some like light sensitivity that shouldn't that shouldn't affect it um so what this test is you're just going to can you see the tip of the pen all right so going to watch the tip of the pen with your eyes and your eyes only right just keep your head still and just follow with your eyes understand y okay I'm going to move it back and forth okay almost done all right now just follow it straight up okay all right all right so uh you said you only had the one drink yeah are you being completely honest with me yep okay cuz usually when you have one drink your eyes don't like so what I look for in that test is like your eyes FL like fluttering and it's like an involuntary like spasm like when you're uh when you had more than a drink than just one drink and uh you're saying 8:00 was the last drink you had yeah okay between 8:00 and now what I mean it's after like 2: in the morning what we doing just hanging out just hanging out okay all right I'm just going to have you uh do two more tests okay um we're going to go right over here here uh yeah right over here is fine you can stand right there and then just uh you can face me uh just yeah stand right like pretty much right in front of me y um do you have any issues with your legs like walking any injuries no no okay uh so for this test I'm going to have you we're going to pretend like there's a straight line right here okay uh on that line you're going to put your left foot on the line okay and then you're put your right foot in front of your left touching a heel the tow you can do that now like this yep yep and then uh your arms down at your sides and just stay just like that until I tell you to do anything else okay all right from that from yeah just try try your best to stay just in that position from that position you're going to take a nine Heel To Toe steps All Right Down the Line once you get to the ninth step you're going to do a series of small steps and then do nine steps back I'm going to show you how to do it but that's the uh the gist of it all right so it's going to look like this so all right just like this you're going to do one two three when you get to the I'm only going to do three to demonstrate it but you have to do nine when you get to the ninth step you're going to leave whatever foot is in the front there and then you're going to do a series of small steps like this okay all right and then you're going to do one two 3 all the way to nine all right so nine there nine back yeah counting out loud uh looking down your feet just make sure you keep your hands at your side and uh yeah hands at your sides okay you understand all what yes sir okay you can uh you can go ahead 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 this Ser yeah this Ser small steps to turn around s yep no you got it one 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 all right uh the next test uh you're going to stand with your feet together again your hands at your sides uh when I tell you to you're going to lift uh one foot either foot it could be your left or right uh approximately 6 Ines off the ground okay um you're going to have your toe pointed forward just like that with your hands at your sides you're going to look down at your foot and you're going to count 1,1 1,2 13 and keep going until I tell you to stop okay all right is that like 6 in sorry 6 in like like you know how big a soda can is off the ground like just about that not really sorry so if I was if I was to put a soda can on the ground like your foot would be about that high 6 in all right half a foot all right so uh either foot is that good uh yeah just about you need to keep your PO uh toe pointed forward though okay and your leg straight all right not until I tell you start sorry sorry you got a uh you got your phone on you or something or a watch [Music] yeah it's kind of loud yeah all right all right uh you could start now 1,1 is that what you said Yeah by 1,000 so 1001 1002 13 I'm sorry 1004 1005 1006 17 1008 1009 sorry 110 111 112 134 2015 20166 am I supposed to restart when I go down no no just keep going until I until you stop sorry I feel like I'm on like an angle I'm sorry uh no you're not on an angle 1001 1002 13 1004 1005 1006 17 1 8 1000 okay that's good you can prove it down all right just uh hang out one second all right okay uh going to mute my body camera for uh tactics just going mute real quick to the talk tactics you good so just came back from Red Bank yeah from like a friend's house moved there it was like 229 something Road or something I was at her apartment she has two skunks like we were just hanging out we got dinner and okay I was on the phone with my mom I've been going through some stuff that has been rough and I talked to my cousin about it so I was talking to my mom about it and then all of a sudden my [ __ ] red bat or what's it called I don't even know that's all right I've never had an accident in my life which is crazy so what happened here did you were you just driving and I I don't know I I I honestly don't know if I was like dialing my mom or on the phone with my mom and I got distracted or going through the red light but I know I was distracted with something okay yeah all right how are you good how are you good you're not injured or anything like that no all right can you turn around and face me so what I'm going to do is I'm just going to do a quick eye test I I believe the elaser already did that so I'm just going to do it again what I want you to do is just follow the tip of the pen in my finger see where it is yes okay what I want you to do is just follow it with your eyes and your eyes only don't move your head do you understand for oh sorry I'm I supposed to have my hands down it doesn't matter I'm just worried about your eyes and your head not moving that's it you're doing good right yes all right thank you of course yeah I got hits on everything except for vertical you you don't have thex no it have to be I don't think Jay is either it have to be LT I go in two weeks doesn't help us now but I've been asking for all this stuff and it still wouldn't help too cuzz um you're getting we're getting certified on the old bus not even the new bus so is my headl out like I might be but crazy think there's a bigger issue than that I've never had uh my airbags go off or anything like that I had to go out the back door doesn't help us now all right Savannah so I'm going to be uh honest with you the tests weren't like that great to be honest with you um do you want to be just tell me how much you had to drink tonight cuz from checking your eyes I could tell that you had more than one Cosmopolitan definitely it was it was one Cosmo at 8:00 yeah okay it might have been I I could actually I could smell like the alcohol like now that I'm closer to you I can smell them off your breath on my breath yeah all right I mean it might have been later than 8 but yeah we we were walking a cop stopped us and like said made sure we were good when you were walking or yes okay I mean he can just by stopping it when you're walking that's not going to that doesn't matter it's it's when you're driving yeah that matters so uh did you who did you call before your mom on like the way down here or something okay so uh you are going to have to come in with us okay okay uh your mom can pick us up pick you up from there uh we we have to fill out some paperwork and stuff and then uh all right so uh we I do have to hand up you all right really yeah it's like our procedure so if you just turn around can I let her know that that's happening first well she's coming directly here oh she's coming right here okay um just because where's your phone at it's right here in my pocket I also have a jewel in my pocket so that's all I have she she's coming from Flemington right so she's going to take a while to get here anyway no but I think she was on her way before I have her location yeah no I know but uh it it takes around like 40 minutes probably to get here from from there to here so so uh on the way there I'll we we'll call her and then she'll meet us at headquarters it's actually closer Okay police station so uh the police station here is probably about like 10 minutes up the road it's right off the parkway though my car is going to have to get towed either yeah even if uh that's fine can I put my cup or like take my purse out of my car we'll get all that stuff for you all right all right based on the motor vehicle crash the odor of alcohol on her person and her inability to adequately complete the field sobriety exercises patrolman Mania placed Savannah under arrest for driving Under the Influence her vehicle was impounded for a mandatory 12-hour hold under John's law she was transported by patrolman Mania to Middletown Township police headquarters for further processing so uh if you just turn around yeah that's fine but can I my purse we're going to bring your purse to everything yep everything will come with you but who's going to grab it we're going to get it yep we'll get it that's fine all right so just uh turn around and then just have your palms facing outward sorry it's a big yeah no I I got it's all right all right just hold on one sec I don't want it to uh tighten up on you is there any way we could put that cup that's on the road either in in the and we'll give you all yep we'll give you all the information for uh where the car is going to get tow to so that way in case you got to get a I don't want to make these too tight on you but you have small wrist so yeah it's fine do you want to take the stuff out of my it's in my hoodie pocket it's any other Pockets besides that what your phone yeah it's it's just a phone and a jeel CO that can you give me a flashlight or something cuz I can't see in this right pocket there's nothing else okay stuck it's in a this pocket right here just phone all right and a jewel there's a jewel in there okay got it just wanted to make sure you know um yeah we're just going to go to the car right behind your car no worries um you can come around this way cuz I don't or actually know come right through here is there any way we can make sure that yeah we'll make sure we'll make sure it gets in there all right not the cup [ __ ] matters you do you have anything else in your pockets besides this that was it okay all right right here uh the seat Bel comes down you just take a seat underneath the seat belt me yep all right just go on real quick and then we'll uh okay this is your mom here I guess right yeah you can answer her if you want okay hello this is Officer Mania from Middletown police are Hi how are you um can you actually meet us at our uh police department I can give you the address for it so uh Savannah did have a little bit to drink tonight um we ran her through uh the field sobriety tests and she is going to be placing a rest for DUI um once we're done processing or you can come pick her up you just have to sign for her okay it's uh one Kings Highway in Middletown it's right off of uh if you're coming down the parkway it's exit 114 I'm sorry I'm sorry I sure yeah it's Middletown Police Department one Kings Highway uh her car is on West Front Street it's going to have to get towed though most likely it is uh total and uh we'll we'll give her all the information for uh what toe company is going to take it so that way you guys can contact your insurance company and figure out what they're going to do with the car from there okay yeah no problem bye yep so we're we're going to take her uh her purse out of the car and she wanted a there's like a pink water bottle but uh I'm going to ask her what else she wants out of there we can't take everything out but like I said I'll yeah I'll give you the the name for the toe company and you guys can always make arrangements to get the stuff out of the car okay all right if if you need her you can call this number back and we'll uh we'll uh we'll let you know what's going on all right no problem by yeah um Mike Al I'm not I'm not sure so how old are you by the way I didn't ask you this 23 23 okay uh your mom knows everything she's going to come down and police for she'll pick you up all right cool do you have my phones uh I have your phone in the front seat uh we're going to get your purse okay cool you need anything else uh just a purse do you need anything else other than the purse out of the car here um once it gets towed you guys can always go to the toe company and get whatever else out so the keys are in my purse the keys for toe company might have an issue if you want to take the keys out of my purse that's totally fine okay we'll take the car key off and we'll leave what yeah it's just a it's a nude key it's it has the Fred Beans label on it so that's totally fine I figured the toe key or the toe company would have an issue with uh honestly it's not going to be you're not going to be able to drive it anyway they're probably just going to pull it up onto the tow truck but all right all right we'll uh we'll take care of that sounds good than Now problem good yeah um yeah she just needs her purse and uh she said the key for the car is in the purse yeah the keys on the dash bro I just got to take the little thing off did you guys already call for to and stuff or did we what did you guys call for a toil already yeah I did it's uh Jr did you say it was like John or anything or I said it was John yeah oh you said did you say that we had like a 41 or anything all right I'll just on the way in okay this is uh this is it right uh that was purse there's a wristlet in there with all the uh stuff all right um Apple watch you want this camera I just throw it in here I guess whatever they can always that should be good I don't think there's anything else that she need she said she just want the purse all right guess we go inside now all right so I got your purse and then there there was a camera in there too we put the camera in the bag just in case in the CER console yeah y I'm fine am going a to get to the car again yeah so a and a Bible all all that stuff uh yeah well uh I like I said I'll give you the the card for the toe company they're right here in Middletown and you and you can get whatever you need out of the car then I put your phone in your bag too thank you thank you there's like a little all yep in case I don't have one yeah and the key were able to yeah the key y the keys with the car thank yep thanks came off the key okay yeah I guess this thing came off the key so I'm just going to put in your bag oh that's fine yeah yeah yeah that's fine thank you yep know honestly 30 3 1 396 County 396 I'll be transporting a female 41 from this location to headquarters starting mileage 2171 6.1 4 31 396 County be at headquarters ending 2172 0.2 got headquarters at police HQ Savannah was read the stand standard statement for motor vehicle operators and agreed to submit breath samples for testing 396 to the osc can you open the door 7 no problem St I just walk around the back of the car and then we're going to go right in the open door over here so right through this open door right here and then just wait right here one second walk through there and then just uh just take a seat for here right here real [Music] quick uh you can stand up real quick I'll get the handcuffs off 396 female 41 is negative sry than you so much have to take off uh your jewelry I'll I'll give you a bag to put in the only thing I have that I can't take off is some permanent jewelry like welded jewelry oh okay that's permanent gotcha um so like my bracelets and stuff but nees I could take off yeah if you just do that whatever is permanent you know you put it right in here but if you need me to take it off I can get it rewelded it's not a big deal should be okay okay I have some El I just have two necklaces one of them is welded but if you need me to take it off I can take it off it's no big deal yeah no just whatever you can take off my boss is the one that ws them so it's Gotta really not a problem okay more after this I'm sorry yeah no problem there and um for now you are going to have to take the sweatshirt off too just for now F if you get cold we can give you something else no it's okay I'm I'm thank you all right and then just while while I uh fill out the paperwork I just got to uh handy to the bench for now until uh just while we fill out the paperwork and then uh be going there I understand okay you did it um can you just I'm sorry problem so so right here is there it is y okay got it so that uh got it so with the DUI it always comes with the reckless driving and then uh the officer who took the acent report P the caress driving I'm confused do you want me to explain it to you too yeah absolutely it's not her she didn't drive so explain it to me yeah [ __ ] explain it to me not her so with the DW it always is this and and then the officer yeah the officer took the accident report issued that Carol is driving cuz she said that she was on the phone when she was driving but it's um it's not yeah it's it was through the car so yeah you said you were distracted though by the phone through the car so what the [ __ ] is that stop no because why the [ __ ] is that on the thing I wanted to understand it I would also like to [ __ ] understand it because it was through the car stop cursing I'm pissed so tell me it's 4:00 a.m. tell me [ __ ] why is it on the can you stop no because I'm pissed it was through the car you can see that it was through the car I know you can so there's a quate on here I can't I mean someone are issued already to speak to the judge about this all right the officer who took the accident report he'll be there if you guys want to go um this is just a copy of the uh what you just signed and this is a copy of it's called a cell sheet it just says that this is the property we took from her she signed off saying we gave it back to her okay right the necklace the ring whatever the camera whatever all right my ID let me check that my card is not in there it's okay we de with an all time so we're good clear now all good yep all good yeah losers took stuff out of my car out of my yeah to protect it can we stop to protect my ID without asking me yeah sure clearly you couldn't get it out my um insurance card they ripped out of my car holder without asking me sure not going to need it told them where it was they ripped all my [ __ ] out without asking well listen everything's Lieutenant Brian dillworth administered the ALCO machine her Alco results indicated a BAC level of 0.39% comma which was nearly double the legal limit of 0.08% after they were finished processing her Savannah was eventually released to her mother after she signed the potential liability warning form on Savannah's behalf around the time she was being released she referred to patrol man Mania and Sergeant Jason train as FN losers she was issued the following summonses operating Under the Influence careless driving reckless driving and traffic on marked Lan's audio video recorded so don't worry about it okay okay you have a good okay thank you thank you so much have a great night a. okay have a night gentleman that came out the white shirt yes tell him thank you for coming out um he said she was great doing great yeah I'm not sure I'm not really sure what happened back there but until you guys pull this [ __ ] on paperwork that's fine no problem whatever have a great night whatever good luck to you Ma'am okay good luck to you honestly I was speaking to your mother whatever okay come on let's go good luck don't know