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Two Woman Arrested After Drunk Driving in Cortlandt

Posted on Oct 12, 2011

On Friday night, state Troopers pulled over a car with a suspended registration, driven by Tracy A. Defonce, on Baker Street in Cortlandt. Police discovered 34 year old Defonce of Mahopac was intoxicated, and the breathalizer revealed a blood alcohol content of .13 percent. Defonce is scheduled to appear in court on October 14^th at 9am.

On Sunday, Klavidiya Marricco was pulled over at 12:30 in the morning on Albany Post Road, for following too closely and failing to keep right. Police said the Croton-on-Hudson woman was arrested after flailing her arms and resisting arrest when police attempted to take her into custody. Maricco is 37 years old.

The police brought Maricco to the Cortlandt police barracks, where a breathalizer test resulted in blood alcohol content of .14 percent.

She was charged with resisting arrest, driving while intoxicated and misdemeanors. She will appear in the Town of Cortlandt Court on October 21^st.

Drunk Driving Statistics

According to statistics on MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving):

• 10,839 people will die in 2011 from drunk-driving crashes
  
  
• Drunk driving is estimated to cost every adult in the United States $500 annually
  
  
• Drunk drivers average 87 times behind the wheel while drunk before their first arrest
  
  
• One in every 3 8^th grade students drinks alcohol
  
  
• One in every 3 people will be involved in alcohol-related car accidents in their lifetime
  
  
• Someone is injured from alcohol-related car accidents once each minute
  
  
• More than half of all convincted drunk drivers continue to drive even after their licenses are suspended
  
  
• Car crashes are the leading cause of teen death; and out of these car accidents out of out 3 are related to alcohol
  
  

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