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DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. – Drivers who were involved in a five-car accident are wondering why a man was not arrested for impaired driving.
The mother of a young woman involved told Channel 2 investigative reporter Ashli Lincoln that two police crash reports contradicted each other.
I was horrified, said Angela Green, describing how she felt when she saw her daughter’s mangled car.
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It was part of an accident scene involving multiple cars on Interstate 285 near Bouldercrest Road in February.
Green said her 22-year-old daughter was now facing a flurry of insurance claims from other vehicles involved after details from a second police report blamed her daughter.
It was just awful, Green said.
She said the initial police report paints a different picture, blaming the driver of an SUV.
Statements indicate that witnesses saw the cross-tracks of the SUV hit the Greens daughter’s white car from behind, triggering a chain collision.
In both reports, the officer reported smelling alcohol on the SUV driver and the driver admitted to drinking.
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A field sobriety test was conducted on the driver of the SUV. However, he was not arrested.
Being involved in a multi-car accident like that, and talking without being charged at all, what’s going on here, Green said.
Green told Lincoln that the two reports tell two different stories.
The car was blue in first gear, it was green in second gear. The drunk driver had no passenger in first gear, suddenly he has a passenger in second gear, Green said.
DeKalb County police confirmed to Lincoln that it’s not unusual for details to change during an investigation. They said the supplemental reports are written by experts from the department’s traffic specialist unit.
They also said that although the driver of the SUV admitted to drinking since passing the sobriety test, responding officers were under no obligation to make an arrest.
No matter how many people write a report, it could have been McGilla Gorilla and Santa Claus, the basic facts of an investigation don’t change, Green said.
Green said his insurance company plans to take the matter to court, refuting the second police report.
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