A 36-year-old city woman is facing a DUI charge after she admitted to drinking hand sanitizer and nearly crashed her car while two officers had stopped another driver, according to Middletown Police.
On Oct. 5, officers conducting a motor vehicle stop on Rapallo Avenue saw a car driven by Jennifer Amanda Wilcox, 36, of Russell Street come around a corner and pass them at a high rate of speed, spin out of control and nearly collide with the stopped car, the report indicates.
An officer smelled alcohol inside her car, the report says, and Wilcox denied drinking any so a sobriety test was offered and she failed. Later, she admitted to drinking half a bottle of hand sanitizer, police say.
A breath test registered .1764 and .1577 blood-alcohol content.
She was charged with driving under the influence and failure to drive right.