3
Read / Add Comments
A speeding driver in Westchester was found asleep behind the wheel and attempted to flee from officers while repeatedly swerving across the roadway, police said.
An officer from the Scarsdale Police Department on patrol shortly after midnight on Sunday, Dec. 27 spotted a driver speeding on Post Road near the intersection of Richbell Road while repeatedly swerving into the opposite lane.
The officer turned his cruiser around tracking the vehicle, which was now stopped, onto Murray Hill Road.
According to the officer, when he approached the driver, later identified as White Plains resident Juan Matute, he was asleep behind the wheel. When the officer knocked on the window to stir him, Matute allegedly attempted to drive away despite being instructed not to flee.