Man Killed And Two Injured In Block Island DUI Crash


Posted on Jun 24, 2009

A Block Island ferry employee has been charged with drunken driving in connection with a single-vehicle crash that left a coworker dead and two women injured.  Police say Craig Huntley of Narragansett was the driver of a truck that hit a stone wall and utility pole on Corn Neck Road at about 1 a.m. Tuesday.  The 56-year-old Huntley was ordered held on $20,000 bail at his arraignment Tuesday.  Police say 28-year-old rear-seat passenger Mitchell Paskins was ejected from the vehicle and died.  Chief Vincent Carlone tells The Providence Journal that Huntley refused a test for alcohol, but officers felt there was probable cause to charge him with driving under the influence. Carlone says the fatal accident was the first on the island since 2002.

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