Dade City man accused of driving drunk, crashing into FHP vehicle

Rachel Tucker
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Dade City man accused of driving drunk, crashing into FHP vehicle

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A Dade City man was arrested early Sunday morning after he was accused of driving drunk and crashing into a Florida Highway Patrol car in Wesley Chapel.

FHP was investigating a separate crash on I-75 near SR-54 when Elmer Perez Ramirez, 23, sideswiped the patrol vehicle at 2:14 a.m.

Two road rangers and two other FHP vehicles at the site of the crash also had their emergency lights activated.

Ramirez, who was identified by his Guatemala passport, “smelled like alcohol and stumbled around,” according to a FHP arrest report. He told troopers he lived in Dade City and was heading to Sarasota at the time of the crash.

Troopers reported Ramirez performing poorly on field sobriety tests and his breath samples tested at 0.185 and 0.194, the arrest report stated. He was charged with DUI and driving without a license.

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