Watertown police have made a driving while intoxicated arrest to close out an investigation into two accidents that occurred early on Aug. 30 in the J.B. Wise parking lot and the Black River Parkway.

Jerry C. Lambert, 21, of 409 Academy St., Apt. 1, was charged Sunday with DWI, leaving the scene of an accident and making an unsafe lane change.

Police said he was taken to Samaritan Medical Center that morning after his vehicle went off Black River Parkway, traveled down a grassy hill and struck a light pole. At the hospital, a blood test revealed his blood alcohol content to be 0.09 percent, just above the state’s standard for intoxication, 0.08 percent, police said.

During the investigation of that accident, police determined that a hit-and-run driver had struck a handicapped sign in the J.B. Wise parking lot. A muffler and tailpipe that dropped at that location were found to be the parts missing from Mr. Lambert’s auto at the second accident scene, police said.

Thousands of readers like you have made Northern New York Newspapers the number one ranked website* for local news and sports coverage in the north country.

You can continue on to this article in a few seconds, or you can visit one of our websites:

• Watertown Daily Times
• The Ogdensburg Journal
• Daily Courier-Observer