Suspected impaired driver arrested after stopping in middle of I-10: ‘Worst place to sleep it off’

The Brief

  • A suspected impaired driver was arrested after being found asleep at the wheel of a car stopped in drive in the middle of Interstate 10 in Phoenix on May 25.
  • The vehicle was struck by passing cars before state troopers successfully boxed it in to wake the driver.
  • The man had a recently suspended license from a previous DUI this year.

PHOENIX A driver was arrested after Arizona troopers found him in “one of the worst places to ‘sleep it off’” earlier this week.

What we know:

Several calls were made to the Department of Public Safety Highway Patrol regarding a silver car stopped in the middle of the I-10 highway between the 32nd Street and 40th Street exits on May 25. Callers said the vehicle had been hit by passing cars.

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