Wounded man crashes trying to get help

Monday wasn't Augustus Petro's night.
The 49-year-old New Windsor man stabbed himself in the chest during a fight with his wife, then raced along Route 17K, illegally passing cars in the process, trying to get to the hospital, police said.
His run for help ended when he sideswiped a Toyota Tercel he was trying to pass, police said.
Petro's wife, Bernice, 44, at first said she was driving the car, but changed her story after witnesses came forward, police said. Police said they found an illegal handgun and illegal Vicodin prescription painkillers in the car.
Petro was treated at the scene by Mobile Life Support Services and at the Cornwall campus of St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital and released.
Petro was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving, misdemeanors, and also ticketed for unsafe passing and failure to keep right.
He and his wife were charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon, and Bernice Petro was charged with second-degree obstructing governmental administration, all misdemeanors. They were released on their own recognizance, pending future appearances in Town Court.

< OK, regardless of whatever else happened, arresting someone while trying to get to the hospital is, under any circumstances, totally fucked up. >