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Witnesses told police that the 44-year-old woman failed to stop for the light at the corner of Brewster Street and Canfield Avenue just over the Bridgeport border and proceeded north on Black Rock Turnpike, where she ran into the back of a pickup truck at the entrance to BJ’s Wholesale Club, according to police reports.
Police said she was unresponsive when they arrived and they could smell what they thought was the odor of crack cocaine emanating from the car. Fairfield K9 Maverick was called to the scene and indicated the presence of drugs in the center console of the car.
Police said they found burnt marijuana “blunts” in the car, as well as one pill of trazodone, a drug often used to treat depression.
The woman became conscious and asked officers where she was and what was going on. Police said she told them she had smoked marijuana earlier in the day.
She has 12 previous motor vehicle violations in Connecticut, including an October driving under the influence charge, police said. Her driver’s license expired in January.
She complained her head hurt and she was taken to St. Vincent’s by ambulance.
She has not yet been charged, pending the results of blood work.
No one else was injured in the incident.
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