A New York snowbird at the wheel of a Corvette was arrested on a charge of driving under the influence after driving the wrong way in traffic.
John James Whateley, 63, was driving the blue Chevrolet Corvette at about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday traveling east in the westbound lanes of State Road 44 near Meggison Road in The Villages, according to an arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office.
During a traffic stop, Whateley was identified by his New York driver’s license. Whateley, who owns a home in the Village of Richmond, said he’d left a nearby McDonald’s restaurant and was driving the wrong way because he was “not used to the traffic patterns in the area,” the report said.
It appeared Whateley had been drinking and he agreed to take part in field sobriety exercises. He struggled through the exercises and provided breath samples that registered .235 and .211 blood alcohol content…