PIP officer injured by drunk AND drugged driver, cops charge

Officer Joseph Quinn, 37, was released from Hackensack University Medical Center after being treated for minor injuries, said PIP Police Lt. Michael Coppola.

Also hospitalized briefly, at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center, were the driver of the other car, 19-year-old Robert King of Nanuet, and three of his passengers, the lieutenant said.

Quinn said he was stopped on the grassy median of the parkway near exit 4 in Alpine, waiting to make a U-turn into southbound traffic, when his car was struck by a 2003 Saturn Ion that had careened his way around 10 p.m.

Responding officers found booze in the car and charged King, as well as his passengers, with underaged possession of alcohol. The others are identified in a news release as Tyrone Stewart, 18, of Nanuet, N.Y., Marquise Gray, 18, and a 17-year-old juvenile, both of Spring Valley, N.Y.

King was charged with both DWI and DUI, in addition to juvenile endangerment and reckless driving.

All now have pending court dates in Alpine.

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