Woman Driver Hits Cop, Gets DWI

The New Year got off to a shakey start for a Queens, New York woman who drove up to a sobriety checkpoint, sideswiped one car, hit a police officer, and rear-ended another car after obviously celebrating a bit too much.

Police say Denise Messner, 25, was double drunk -- with a blood alcohol concentration twice the legal limit -- when she approached a sobriety checkpoint on the Grand Central Parkway near the entrance of the Long Island Expressway shortly after midnight, New Year's Day. She has been charged with driving while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license.

Police officer John Walsh received a leg injury in the incident and is listed in stable condition at Bellvue Hopsital.

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