Double trouble as second car drives onto 69th Street Pier
Just over a month after a car drove off the 69th Street Veterans Memorial Pier in Bay Ridge, a second vehicle has made its way onto the oft-visited neighborhood landmark – though, this time, it is unclear exactly how.
According to authorities, at around 7 a.m. Sunday morning, December 10, a 27-year-old man was driving his 2017 Nissan Sentra on Shore Road when – he told cops – his GPS told him to make a left turn. That left turn, police said, landed the driver – who was arrested on-site and has since been charged with driving while under the influence – at the foot of the pier’s famed 9/11 memorial, the base of which he crashed into.
“When officers arrived, they discovered the motorist asleep at the wheel and the motor running,” a police source told this paper, adding that the driver smelt of alcohol and was exhibiting “classic signs of intoxication.”