YOU SAW IT HERE FIRST: Garfield police said a 22-year-old former IHOP waitress was drunk this morning when her car plunged over a 12-foot wall and into a shopping center parking lot.
Kelly Luterzo was behind the wheel just after 9:30 a.m. when her northbound car veered off Passaic Street, hit a light pole and then careened through a fence and a guard rail, dropping off the wall at Shopping Center Drive outside the Marshalls, Detective Capt. Darren Sucorowski told CLIFFVIEW PILOT.
Luterzo, a Lodi native, was taken to Hackensack University Medical Center with injuries that were characterized as not life-threatening.
Garfield police and firefighters, along with an HUMC EMS unit, responded.
Records show that a judge dismissed charges of resisting arrest, obstruction and child endangerment after Lodi police arrested Luterzo in September 2010.
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