Abington Township Police Department Photo by James Short.
Woman had car facing the wrong way in the street, later hitting a curb causing a flat, say police
Abington Township Police Department got an alarming call recently for a vehicle stopped in an oncoming traffic lane, facing the wrong way.
On Nov. 16 around 12:25 a.m., Abington police were dispatched to the 2700 block of Mount Carmel Avenue in the Glenside section of the township. Callers said that a suspicious vehicle was stopped in the oncoming travel lane, facing the wrong way, in the vicinity. The callers told police that the vehicle nearly caused an accident due to its location, police said.
According to the police criminal complaint, police arrived to the area to speak to a witness, who described the vehicle, operator, and the license plate of the car. Police said that the witness has stopped to check on the operator and believed her to be under the influence as she drove away from them.
As police were speaking to the witness, the same car drove past them at a high rate of speed, according to the complaint. Police said they were able to stop the vehicle, as it struck the curb causing a flat tire on the vehicle.
Police identified the driver as Joselin Orellana, 25, of the 2700 block of Mount Carmel Avenue, in Glenside, who was a resident of the same block as the incident, said the complaint. Police said she “had an odor of alcoholic beverage coming from her mouth as she spoke,” in addition to watery and glassy eyes. Police said that she was “very agitated, repeating herself as she spoke,” displaying erratic mannerisms, crying, apologizing, and “asking for her mom while admitting she had made a mistake.”
Orellana was asked to perform field sobriety tests, but she refused, police said. According to the complaint, she was then taken into custody for suspicion of a DUI and was transported to Holy Redeemer Hospital for a blood test.
As police explained the chemical test warnings, DL-26, verbatim, to Orellana, she refused to consent to a blood draw, police said. The complaint stated that police repeated the warnings, and she again refused the test.
Police said, upon investigation, the registration on Orellana’s vehicle came back as being issued to a Ford and did not belong to the Jeep it was displayed on at the time of the incident. Additionally, police said, the driver did not have any proof of insurance.
Orellana is charged with driving under the influence (DUI), careless driving, operating a vehicle without required financial responsibility, displaying a plate card on improper vehicle, driving an unregistered vehicle, recklessly endangering another person, and failure to keep right.
She is scheduled for a preliminary hearing on Jan. 29 on 11:30 a.m. before Magisterial District Judge Juanita A. Price.
All suspects and defendants are innocent until proven guilty. This story was compiled using public court records.
