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- 0:06Speaker 1: Romoville man who crashed into two Oswego police cars early
- 0:09Speaker 1: Monday charged with DUI Written by Eric Shelkoff, This article
- 0:16Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
- 0:18Speaker 1: by ever Lit. A Romoville man who crashed into two
- 0:24Speaker 1: Oswego police cars early Monday while officers were conducting a
- 0:28Speaker 1: traffic stop has been charged with driving under the influence
- 0:31Speaker 1: of alcohol. Javir Paris, forty eight, has been charged with
- 0:35Speaker 1: aggravated DUI, driving while license revoked and failing to yield
- 0:39Speaker 1: to an emergency vehicle. He was also charged with illegal
- 0:41Speaker 1: transportation possession of alcohol by a driver. The vehicle initially
- 0:47Speaker 1: stopped for the traffic stop was not involved in the crash,
- 0:50Speaker 1: According to a release from the Oswego Police Department, both
- 0:53Speaker 1: police vehicles were unoccupied at the time of the crash
- 0:56Speaker 1: and no injuries were reported. Proximately twelve fifty am Monday,
- 1:03Speaker 1: two Oswego police vehicles were struck while officers were conducting
- 1:06Speaker 1: a traffic stop at Route thirty and Treasure Drive. The
- 1:10Speaker 1: release said the police vehicles had been pulled to the
- 1:15Speaker 1: side of the road with their emergency lights activated when
- 1:18Speaker 1: a red Honda CRV traveling southeastern Route thirty, struck one
- 1:22Speaker 1: of the police vehicles and then the second before coming
- 1:25Speaker 1: to a stop. The release said police obtained approval from
- 1:30Speaker 1: the Kendall County State's Attorney's Office for charging Paris with
- 1:32Speaker 1: a felony charge of aggravated driving under the influence for
- 1:35Speaker 1: allegedly operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol
- 1:39Speaker 1: while his driving privileges were revoked for a prior DUI violation,
- 1:42Speaker 1: police said. In addition, Paris was charged with operating an
- 1:48Speaker 1: uninsured motor vehicle and failure to reduce speed to avoid
- 1:51Speaker 1: a crash. SATs law requires drivers to slow down and
- 1:55Speaker 1: move over when approaching stationary emergency vehicles with emergency lights
- 1:58Speaker 1: activated in order to protect first responders working on the roadway.