From TheHeraldOnline
FORT MILL— 2013-12-17 — A Fort Mill woman who authorities suspected of drunken driving backed into a deputy’s patrol car after nearly hitting a parked truck and swerving across the highway on Sunday, officials said.
Deputies patrolling U.S. 21 near the Department of Motor Vehicles noticed a silver Toyota Corolla drifting over into the fog line and then ran off the side of the road, according to a York County Sheriff’s report. Deputies activated their blue lights to perform a traffic stop as the car got back onto the highway, slowed in the middle lane of traffic, veered left into another lane and then turned the wrong way into Food Lion’s parking lot.
Deputies followed the car as the driver tried turning into a parking space but instead nearly hit a truck, the report states. A deputy parked his patrol car and walked towards the Corolla only to notice the car’s reverse lights come on. The Corolla slowly backed into the patrol car. The deputy tapped on the window and spoke with the driver, 63-year-old Elaine Lands, who struggled with unlocking the door.
Lands told authorities that she did not have anything to drink, but she was “in a hurry to get cough syrup” so she could meet her friend at a Christmas cantata in Charlotte, the report states. Deputies could not smell alcohol on her breath… Read more here:
