Tractor-trailer driver slams into cars and hydrants, takes down utility pole, starts transformer fire, gets charged with OUI

By adamg on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 9:39am

Chelsea Police Chief Brian Kyes shows us the carnage on Library Street after last night's crashes.

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Hmm

By cybah on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 9:51am.

I live near by.. I wonder if thats why I didn't have internet service until a few moments ago...

Operating under the influence

By anon on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 10:03am.

Operating under the influence OF WHAT? Dare the media to tell us.

Really?

By adamg on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 10:17am.

Is there anybody out there who doesn't know that OUI means "operating under the influence of an intoxicating liquor?"

Here is the state law.

Does it have to be liquor?

By Ron Newman on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 11:15am.

Couldn't it also be a narcotic, or weed, or even too much Benadryl? I think this is what the commenter is asking.

OUI means operating under the infulence

By roadman on Wed, 02/01/2017 - 11:24am.

It doesn't have to just be liquor. From the first paragraph of the state law Adam linked to:

... operates a motor vehicle with a percentage, by weight, of alcohol in their blood of eight one-hundredths or greater, or while under the influence of intoxicating liquor, or of marijuana, narcotic drugs, depressants or stimulant substances, all as defined in section one of chapter ninety-four C, or the vapors of glue ...