By LESLIE EIKLEBERRY
Salina Post
A Salina man faces requested charges after he allegedly drove on the wrong side of the street and backed his vehicle into a police patrol vehicle Saturday morning.
Officers were sent to the area of S. Ohio Street and E. Cloud Street at approximately 6:50 a.m. Saturday for the report of a Mercury passenger car driving southbound in the northbound lanes of the 1600 block of S. Ohio Street, Salina Police Captain Paul Forrester said this morning. The reporting party told police that when the Mercury turned into a parking lot on the east side of the street, it went over the curb and almost hit another vehicle. The Mercury then went northbound on S. Ohio Street.
An officer observed the Mercury coming toward him and driving out of its lane, Forrester said. The officer conducted a traffic stop and made contact with the driver of the Mercury, identified as William Quinley, 68, of Salina.
Forrester said that while the officer was in the patrol vehicle, Quinley allegedly put the 2007 Mercury Milan in drive and then in reverse, striking the patrol car, a 2021 Ford Explorer, and causing minor damage.
Quinley was arrested on the following requested charges, Forrester said.
●Driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs
●Reckless driving
●Improper driving on laned roadways
●Driving on the left side of the roadway
●Improper backing