Woman was drunk when car plunged into Garfield parking lot, police say

YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Garfield police said a 22-year-old former IHOP waitress was drunk this morning when her car plunged over a 12-foot wall and into a shopping center parking lot.

Jerry DeMarco

04/11/2014 5:18 p.m.

Kelly Luterzo was behind the wheel just after 9:30 a.m. when her northbound car veered off Passaic Street, hit a light pole and then careened through a fence and a guard rail, dropping off the wall at Shopping Center Drive outside the Marshalls, Detective Capt. Darren Sucorowski told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.

Luterzo, a Lodi native, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that were characterized as not life-threatening.

Garfield police and firefighters, along with an HUMC EMS unit, responded.

Records show that a judge dismissed charges of resisting arrest, obstruction and child endangerment after Lodi police arrested Luterzo in September 2010.

PHOTO: Kevin Teel

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