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Morristown woman in crash at twice legal alcohol limit while baby slept alone at home, deputies charge

Posted 11/10/11

MORRISTOWN – A Morristown woman who told deputies she swerved to avoid a cat in the road has been charged with driving at more than twice the legal alcohol limit, and with endangering her daughter …

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Morristown woman in crash at twice legal alcohol limit while baby slept alone at home, deputies charge

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MORRISTOWN – A Morristown woman who told deputies she swerved to avoid a cat in the road has been charged with driving at more than twice the legal alcohol limit, and with endangering her daughter by leaving her at home alone.

St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office was called at 12:31 a.m. today by someone reporting a property damage accident on Chapman Street Road in the town of Morristown. The caller also said the driver might be intoxicated.

Deputies were on the scene less than five minutes later. There they found 23-year-old Samantha R. Seguin of 409 Main St., who said she couldn’t get her car out of the ditch after she swerved off the road to avoid a cat.

Deputies said she failed several field sobriety tests, and was subsequently tested at .19 percent blood alcohol content, where the legal threshold for a driving while intoxicated charge is .08 percent.

Deputies also determined that Seguin’s 1 ½-year-old daughter had been left at home alone for at least 2 hours and 40 minutes.

Deputies went to the home and found the girl asleep in her crib.

Seguin was charged with aggravated DWI and endangering the welfare of a child.

She was also charged by state police with unlawful possession of marijuana at 3:15 a.m. today.

She was arraigned before Morristown Town Justice Philips and held on $10,000 cash bail.