Man charged with DWI in KDH accident

Russ Lay | July 14, 2012

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One man was arrested for failure to slow and driving while impaired as the result of a two-car collision in Kill Devil Hills on Wednesday morning.

The accident occurred in the northbound lane of U.S. 158 between Oregon and Carlton Streets at 11:44 a.m.

A car driven by P.S. Gantt slowed for traffic and was rear-ended by a vehicle driven by S.L. Naugle.

Gantt was transported to Outer Banks Hospital with minor injuries, while Naugle was arrested at the scene.

on July 14, 2012 @ 5:49 pm

on July 15, 2012 @ 11:07 am

jamie says:

What’s with all the road blocks on oceanbay drive there has been one there aleast 3 times this year. How much policing do we need. Last night they were their past midnight how are people supposed to sleep with all thoose police lights. They were running dogs threw people’s cars.that’s great on the leather. And its unlawful to set up road blocks to profile drug user’s and dealer’s so why was a dog there to begin with. And if the cops are not making the dogs alert to give them probable cause.how come the dogs come up empty handed so often. People don’t let police violate your rights. Be polite but tell them you enjoy your right to privacy.

on July 15, 2012 @ 12:22 pm

jamie says:

Funny how its not unsafe for cops to direct traffic during road blocks .

on July 15, 2012 @ 12:31 pm

ekim says:

JAMIE JAMIE JAMIE This is what they do best, They dont care about your rights or privacy, Road blocks carry the STENCH! of communisam at its finest, The cops love it, they get very little out of them or we would never hear the end of it! In the winter time when the locals dont bother anyone the play the same crap, because they have nothing TO DOOO!!!!

on July 15, 2012 @ 4:45 pm

voice reader says:

@jamie. you’re right, narcotics checkpoints are illegal, but it’s not illegal for a K9 to be AT a checkpoint. if an officer sees a violation in the minute or two chatting with a driver (open container, no license, odor of alcohol, head light out) then the K9 officer can run his dog at the discretion of the initial officer. you can not deny a search if the K9 indicates on the vehicle, although you MAY laugh to yourself if the officer finds nothing after the search.

i would venture to guess the K9′s don’t “come up empty handed” very often. if a vehicle even had a passenger with narcotics on his person and was no longer in the vehicle, the K9 would indicate. just because drugs were not recovered from the car does not mean the K9 did not do as he was trained to do.

on July 15, 2012 @ 9:22 pm

jamie says:

Yes k9 units have the ability to do there job properly. But police are no longer the honest people they used to be. They are now more like long line Fisher men who pull up everything and throw back what they don’t want. I have 3 dogs and I can make them bark with just a hand jesters. And I have had my vehicle searched 3 times and I don’t Do any drugs smoke or drink and drive . but I do work construction. And when I had to take a second job working night’s I got profiled. I even had one officer try to tell me I blew a .05 when I had nothing to drink.and he would not show me the reading and after taking the breath test 3 more times he let me go. How often do you see people being searched on the bypass. Pretty often and its embarrising. If you don’t want your civil rights fine but I don’t think cops should not be violating people rights just because they can catch some criminals. If. someone is swerving pull them if there tags are dead or there seat belt is otf fine.but road blocks are like pulling everyone over and seeing what comes up. And that is a civil rights violation.

on July 15, 2012 @ 10:42 pm

Allan2 says:

Yes, it is a good think the speed limit was changes otherwise, rather than “injuries”, the story line may have included “deaths”. Property damage, injury and death are all compounded by speed. Yes, many other factors contribute but few are as manageable as setting lower speed limits.

on July 16, 2012 @ 7:33 am

Sue says:

Voice Reader, that is very interesting. Years ago, when I worked in munitions, dogs routinely checked employee vehicles. There was great excitement one day, noses pressed to the windows, when something was “found”. They opened this lady’s trunk and found 1/2 dozen tomato plants. Back then, that was about as much drug search excitement there was. How times have changed!!

on July 16, 2012 @ 7:43 am

jamie says:

Would be nice to know the results they got from disturbing the peace of hundreds of people.

on July 16, 2012 @ 9:23 pm

jamie says:

So police can set up road blocks legaly. but I’m I under law to go threw. Like can I make a legal u turn or turn down another street. And if I did could they pull me over for it. Or can they get around the fourth and fourteenth amendment here to. And what if I don’t wish to talk to the officers or show my license as I have broken no laws and reasonable suspicion is needed for a to be pulled over. If I break no traffic law’s and am under no suspicion what rights do I have.

on July 16, 2012 @ 11:45 pm

louis says:

You have no rights when dealing with a cop. Do as they say or go to jail.

on July 17, 2012 @ 1:59 pm

Shaun says:

We’ve been accepting these “public safety” and “national security” games for so long that the police state, predicted by the lucatic fringe, doesn’t seem that far away.

on July 17, 2012 @ 6:38 pm

Bent says:

I have lived in and regularly visited cities all over this lovely nation, and never seen the afternoon checkpoint before here. It is annoying, but I think it may have something to do with a local culture where a DWI at 11:44 AM (as in the article) is not uncommon. You might note that none of the commenters until now felt the need to be outraged at the time or the fact the driver put the lives of everyone on the road at risk. It would be nice if we could police ourselves, but you know, there is a reason we need laws prohibiting murder even though we all know it is wrong. The more we act like children, the more reason law enforcement and government have to treat us as such.

on July 20, 2012 @ 3:41 am

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