By NANCY CUTLER AND SUZAN CLARKE
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: July 19, 2004)
A Brooklyn man faces various traffic charges after a woman told state police he used a siren and lights to keep her from merging onto the Palisades Interstate Parkway.
The alleged incident happened around 6:15 p.m. Friday. A woman, who state troopers said was visibly shaken, went into Troop F in Haverstraw town to report that a man in an older light blue Lincoln Continental was driving erratically on the parkway northbound.
She told troopers she was trying to merge onto the parkway at Exit 10 when the car sped up as she tried to merge, blocking her entry. The woman said she then slowed to pull into the right lane behind the vehicle. The driver then slowed and activated some kind of siren as her path was blocked again.
She sped up again; the Continental sped up, she told troopers.
She said she slowed again, and the car passed her and activated a siren. She said she was able to get onto the roadway just as she ran out of merge lane.
The woman followed the car and wrote down the license-plate numbers. When she reached Troop F on Thiells-Mount Ivy Road, she pulled into the station and made a complaint.
A short while after the complaint was made, troopers stopped a 1989 light blue Lincoln Continental traveling northbound on the PIP near Exit 18, operated by a 38-year-old Brooklyn man.
The car had several red emergency lights, a switch-activated siren and heavily tinted windows, which impaired the view into the car, troopers said.
Though the man had identifications as a chaplain or honorary chaplain from various New York City agencies, including the Police and Fire departments, and identification as an Office of Emergency Management clergy crisis responder, troopers said, they could not establish permission for him to use a siren or emergency lights. Many of the IDs had expired, troopers said.
One ID that was current identified him as chief chaplain for the New York State Park Police, troopers said.
The man was charged with misdemeanor reckless driving, police said, and other misdemeanor charges were expected to be filed today when he is due to return to the post. Troopers impounded the Lincoln, but allowed the man to leave Friday in time to return home by sunset to observe the Sabbath. He was ordered to appear in Clarkstown Justice Court on Aug. 26.
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