Drunk driver crashes into DPS patrol car

Syracuse Police arrested a man on a driving while intoxicated charge when he hit a Public Safety car stopped at the intersection of Euclid and Ostrom Avenues around 3:50 a.m. on Friday.

Jonathan Mayback, a Rochester resident, was traveling south on Ostrom Avenue in a black Jeep and failed to stop at the intersection’s light, hitting a public safety vehicle. Sgt. Stanley Prue of Public Safety was on regular patrol, and the collision pushed his vehicle 60 feet, SU’s Fire Marshal Scott Evener said.

Neither Prue nor Mayback were injured, but a passenger in Mayback’s car was taken to Upstate Hospital for evaluation, Evener said.

‘The car hit the DPS vehicle pretty hard,’ Evener said. ‘It’s possible that the passenger got whiplash.’







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