Suffolk County Police today arrested a West Babylon man for driving while intoxicated after he was driving the wrong direction on Sunrise Highway in West Islip this morning.
Jose Espinoza-Silva was driving a 2007 Jeep SUV eastbound on Westbound Sunrise Highway near Exit 39 at 4:56 a.m. When Highway Patrol officers arrived on the scene, he had crashed the Jeep into two vehicles, with two adult passengers each, and then into a guardrail in North Babylon, near exit 40, where the Jeep came to a stop at 4:59 a.m.
Two of the occupants of the vehicles that the Jeep crashed into were transported to a local hospital for treatment of minor injuries. The other two occupants of the vehicles declined treatment at the scene. Espinoza-Silva was not injured.
Espinoza-Silva, 24, of West Babylon, was charged with Driving While Intoxicated. He is being held at the Third Precinct and is scheduled to be arraigned this morning at First District Court in Central Islip.