Normally, people look forward to Fridays and hate Mondays, as the first signals the end of a five-day work week, while the later means the beginning of a new one. The weekend is meant to hopefully have some fun, relax and get away from issues dealing with work or other matters until Monday morning. Catherine Giaquinto, however, must be having a horrible Monday morning, as she is still coping with being arrested and charged with DWI on Friday. Also, Giaquinto might have felt a little cold at the time being that she was wearing an unzipped jacket and nothing else.
Traditionally, Fridays tend to be anticipated as a good thing, as they mark the end of a five-day work week and the beginning of the weekend. Others do not have the same enthusiasm when they work Saturdays or even the whole weekend. Then, you have people like Catherine Giaquinto who start the weekend being involved in a bad incident that ruins the weekend and beyond.
The New Jersey driver early Friday, crashed her car into a stone retaining wall and then drove off. The crash occurred in the community of Sparta Township and police pulled the driver over minutes later after receiving a report about the incident.
When police began to question the 36-year-old driver, the officer noticed she was only wearing an unzipped jacket. Noticing some of her clothes in the car, she was asked to get dressed and did so after several minutes.
According to the Associated Press, the Warwick resident allegedly told police that she couldn’t remember where she was going or the accident. The Daily Mail reported that a series of field sobriety tests were administered to Giaquinto in which standing upright appeared to be beyond her ability as well as an “extremely high level of intoxication.”
Giaquinto’s car was impounded and when she was taken to the police station, she became combative with police officers. She was eventually released in the care of a sober adult while it is unknown at this time if she has retained a lawyer.
As of Monday, a phone number to reach her could not be found.
Giaquinto faces not only being charged with driving while intoxicated but six additional charges as well. She was charged with failure to wear a seatbelt, refusal to submit to a breathing test, careless driving, leaving the scene of an accident, failure to report an accident and a document violation.