The driver of the truck struck by the ex-wife of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has been charged with leaving the scene of an accident without reporting it
Rocco Scuiletti, of Poughkeepsie, was driving on Interstate 684 north of New York City when he was struck by Kerry Kennedy’s Lexus on Friday.
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She has pleaded not guilty to a charge of driving while drug-impaired. Kennedy said doctors believe the accident was caused by a seizure stemming from an old brain injury.
According to the Journal News, investigators charged Scuiletti with leaving the scene without reporting the crash.
It wasn’t immediately known if Scuiletti had a lawyer.
Kennedy, 52, the ex-wife of Gov. Cuomo and daughter of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was charged with driving while ability impaired by drugs after cops said they found her unable to walk, talk or see straight minutes after a harrowing drive on Interstate 684 last Friday.
Kennedy, who allegedly weaved in and out of traffic and cut off several drivers before slamming her Lexus into a tractor-trailer and fleeing the scene, initially told cops she may have taken the potent sleeping drug Ambien.
But just minutes after police announced her arrest, Kennedy’s camp insisted that blood and urine tests conducted by private doctors in the hours after the 8 a.m. crash showed no drugs or alcohol in her system.
“Ninety minutes after the State Police issued a press release, [Kennedy spokesman] Ken Sunshine puts out a release that says she’s clean. Right now, they’re obfuscating. I don’t believe any of it,” a law-enforcement source told The Post.
“Could she really have had some kind of seizure [as she now claims]? Who knows? They painted themselves into a corner. She admitted taking Ambien, now they say no. Either it’s there or it’s not, either it’s in the blood or it isn’t — period.
“It’s absolutely black and white depending on the drug tests. If the tests show something above therapeutic levels, you have a slam-dunk case.”
With AP