JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office released body camera video of a drunk driving crash that injured several people and damaged a police car on Dec. 26.
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Police are using the video and incident to remind people not to drink and drive.
🚨 𝐃𝐫𝐮𝐧𝐤 𝐃𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐥𝐚𝐦𝐬 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐂𝐚𝐫, 𝐈𝐧𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 🚓
— Jax Sheriff's Office (@JSOPIO) December 31, 2024
Here’s another reminder to 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐫𝐢𝐯𝐞! 🍷🚫
JSO Patrol Officer H. Melvin stopped on the Mathews Bridge early in the morning on December… pic.twitter.com/5nZHg3SFIf
According to a social media post, a JSO Patrol Office was stopped on the Mathews Bridge early in the morning. He was helping two men change a tire on a disabled vehicle.
The officer’s police car was parked behind the two vehicles with activated emergency lights.
As they finished changing the tire, a pickup truck slammed into the back of the police car.
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According to JSO, this caused one of the motorists to become pinned between two cars.
30-year-old Aleksandr Bratulin, the pickup driver, was found “slumped over the wheel, with the passenger also unconscious,” according to the social media post.
Two people had major injuries, and the officer had minor ones.
Bratulin faces six counts of DUI with property damage and/or personal injury. According to police, he is also charged for driving under the influence, careless driving, and failure to move over for an emergency vehicle.
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