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Paterson NJ City Council claims that car accidents dizzy, not drunk

Paterson NJ City Council claims that car accidents dizzy, not drunk

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  • “She hit me in the middle of my car,” said Velez about the other driver. “I also had the airbag explode in my face.”
  • The other driver, Knolaisha Washington, had posted videos from Velez immediately after the crash, from which she argued that he was drunk.

Paterson – The City Councilor Luis Velez said that after a car accident, he felt dizzy in the early morning of May 12th, and some people might have kept stunned because of drunkenness.

“She hit me in the middle of my car,” said Velez about the other driver. “I also had the airbag explode in my face.”

Velez said he explained “the confusion” to the first police officer who arrived in the crash scene, which he felt. The officer, said Velez, didn't ask him to submit to an alcohol breath test.

“I said,” Listen if you see me amazingly, it is due to the effects of the car, “said the city council.

The story continues under the photo gallery.

Velez made these comments in a telephone interview with Paterson Press on May 14th. His account was very similar to his statements about NBC News in a town hall interview on May 13th.

The other driver, Knolaisha Washington, had posted videos from Velez immediately after the crash, from which she argued that he was drunk. She told Paterson Press, the city council who headed for alcohol and claimed that he was not interested in the crash because of his connections.

Washington has accused Velez of having driven through a red light. But the city council argued that she was the one who ignored the traffic signal.

Paterson Press asked Velez why he didn't take an ambulance to the hospital if he was dizzy from the crash. He said Washington and people who supported them threatened him after the collision and she was already in the ambulance.

“Why should I go to the ambulance to be beaten up?” The city council said.

Drive home from the trolley driver

Instead, said Velez, he and his wife made home from the truck driver, who dragged his SUV from the intersection, where the accident took place – Madison and 12.

Washington released a video on May 13 that Velez on the stage of a club and a restaurant in the Madison Avenue at 8 p.m. with Velez showed that he did not stay in the club, but instead went to the house of a friend in 11th Avenue. Here he came when the collision took place, he said.

The authorities said on May 14th that the incident would continue to be examined.

NBC News asked Velez about a video in which he urinated after the crash on the roadside. He said he was suffering from diabetes and there were no other bathrooms.

NBC played a video of a surveillance camera video with the crash. But the traffic light was outside the camera's view, so that it was not shown which driver went through the red light.

Critics demand that Velez will be removed from the council

During the city council meeting on May 13th, frequent critics of Velez demanded his distance from the management committee. Zellie Thomas, leader of Black Lives Matter, said that the incident had the reflection of what he described as a lack of accountability for city officials, and claimed that the authorities had abused the situation.

Velez was involved in another controversy in mid-April when he and the city councilor Michael Jackson argued about the $ 10,000 in the amount of $ 10,000.

Jackson and many other people who were on YouTube at the meeting on April 15, Velez said to Jackson and an audience: “I think mine [expletive] Gun for you – and this type here. “

But Velez offered another version and claimed that he said: “I think my courage for you.”

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