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Del Haven Man Charged With DWI After Driving Into House
Accidents | Sat, 11/28/2009 - 5:26 pm | Read 4902 | Commented 10 | Emailed 3
Tags: car into house, DWI, DWI arrests, Green Creek, middle township police department
Tags: car into house, DWI, DWI arrests, Green Creek, middle township police department
Photos & Video by: Harry B. Scheeler, Jr.
GREEN CREEK-- On Nov. 28, at approximately 11 a.m. , the Middle Township Police Department responded to a report of a one car motor vehicle accident on Route 47 in the Green Creek area of the Township.
According to police, David Franchetta, 44, of Del Haven was driving a 2000 Mitsubishi Gallant, south on Route 47 in the area of milepost 7. While negotiating a curve, the vehicle ran off the roadway, struck a shed, a tree and then came to final rest after striking a house located at 391 Route 47 South.
No one is currently living in the residence.
Franchetta was transported to the Cape Regional Medical Center by the Rio Grande Rescue Squad for his injuries and was later transferred to Atlanticare Regional Medical Center in Atlantic City.
Franchetta was charged with DWI and several other traffic offenses.
Green Creek and Rio Grande Fire Companies also responded.
The crash was investigated by Patrolman James D’Alonzo.
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Mon, 11/30/2009 - 3:25pm - Posted by: rob51461
I
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 7:43am - Posted by: Joe
Rob should be given the opportunity to look for another job. His "report" was best left in the ER.
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 5:51am - Posted by: Scorpion
rob, I find it hard to believe that no one knew the proper procedures. But since you seem to know so much, why didn't you tell them how it is done? Were you too busy planning your escape?
Mon, 11/30/2009 - 11:43am - Posted by: rob51461
I was in the ER when they brought this joker in, he was disrupting the whole order of things. While the hospital secrrity and 3 Middle Township police officers were watching him a mental patient escaped. He was fighting the ER staff the whole time.
Sun, 11/29/2009 - 1:53am - Posted by: emkaydist
awesome.
Sat, 11/28/2009 - 11:43pm - Posted by: ratboy2
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Crime | Tue, 07/03/2007 - 3:16 pm | Read 680 | Commented 0 | Emailed 0
Tags: appellate court, cocaine, Court House, DUI, middle township
By Herald Staff
COURT HOUSE — An appeals panel upheld a Middle Township Municipal Court decision and Superior Court appeal that found a local man guilty of DUI for driving on a “cocaine hangover.” When David Franchetta, of Del Haven, was pulled over in the early morning of April 20, 2005, no drugs or alcohol was found in his blood stream, but police found his speech and body movements to be altered. A breath test found his blood alcohol content at zero percent and a blood test later showed only a cocaine byproduct. An expert explained that Franchetta was not high at the time of his arrest, but was suffering the downside of cocaine use. The appeals panel found that a drug hangover constitutes being under the influence of drugs. Franchetta has to report to Middle Township by July 16 to be sentenced as a second offender to a two-year license suspension and 30 days of community service
Sat, 11/28/2009 - 9:00pm - Posted by: joecool
I hope he didnt spill his drink......
Sat, 11/28/2009 - 8:48pm - Posted by: tuckahoekid
I agree on the video part...and again, as I posted about the DUI crash 2 or 3 days ago(18 year old kid rolled over)...we need MUCH stiffer penalties, and more police enforcement.
It's time for the lawmakers to start requiring jail time for these drunks...especially drunks who wreck at 11am.
Sat, 11/28/2009 - 6:49pm - Posted by: Lane Boggs
are those cinder blocks holding up the house? how does one have a dui at 11 AM?
Sat, 11/28/2009 - 5:30pm - Posted by: Rescue3000
hahaha