Man Charged After Friday’s Crash
Driving Impaired, Sheriff Reports
COOPERSTOWN – A 58-year-old Oneonta man was charged with operating a motor vehicle while impaired by drugs in Friday morning’s crash that blocked traffic along Route 28 south of Cooperstown, county Sheriff Richard J. Devlin Jr. said today.
The driver, James Bredin, driving the black Ford, was also charged with failure to keep right, unsafe tires and a windshield-tint violation – the tint on the window was too dark, the sheriff said. The incident was reported at 9:32 a.m.
The Bredin vehicle was southbound on Route 28 when it crossed over the center line and sideswiped the second vehicle, a tan Ford SUV, Devlin said. Both cars ended up off the east side of the roadway, just north of Smith Ford.
If there were any injuries, they were “very minor,” the sheriff said.
Cooperstown EMS and a fire truck responded to the scene, where Devlin’s deputies conducted the investigation.