Crime & Safety

DWI Accident Nets Rockland Man Prison Sentence

The crash happened in February 2012, a year in which the driver already had one DWI conviction, the DA's office said.

Michael Coyle, 46, of Stony Point, was sentenced March 4, before New York State Acting Supreme Court Justice Gerald E. Loehr, to a state prison term of 3 1/3 to 10 years for causing a 2012 car crash that sent his victim to the hospital.

The sentences for driving while intoxicated and first-degree aggravated vehicular assault will be served concurrently.

It was at about 5 p.m. Feb. 22, 2012, said District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe, that Coyle was speeding on Route 9W in Stony Point, crossing over the double yellow line in order to pass vehicles driving ahead of him.  

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"The defendant crossed into oncoming traffic and crashed into another vehicle that was traveling in the other direction, hitting that vehicle head on," Zugibe said in a press release. 

The driver of the other vehicle was seriously injured.  Coyle's blood alcohol content was .18 percent.  

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He had a previous DWI conviction in 2012 in the Town of Clarkstown, Zugibe said.

 


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