{"id":427523,"date":"2026-10-14T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427523\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:18:09","slug":"man-accused-of-dui-after-rear-ending-tesla-in-cape-coral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/427523\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of DUI after rear-ending Tesla in Cape Coral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791976689_130_f3bd3e42-d73f-4622-913f-4ae7ff0ba91d_1769629740.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Carson Zorn\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A man was arrested in Cape Coral after being accused of DUI in a crash where he rear-ended a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">According to the Cape Coral Police Department arrest report, officers responded to reports of a crash in the area of Del Prado Boulevard North and Averill Boulevard at around 11:42 a.m.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Officers spoke with Kristryan Aleksandrov, who was the driver of a Kia Soul that was involved in the crash, the report said. Aleksandrov told officers he had been traveling north on Del Prado Boulevard North, behind a Tesla. Aleksandrov said that the Tesla suddenly had its brakes applied, and that he could not stop in time and rear-ended the Tesla.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Officers then spoke with the driver of the Tesla, who told them he had been driving at a speed of 46 mph with cruise control set when Aleksandrov rear-ended his vehicle, the report said. The Tesla had approximately $10,000 worth of damage.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Suspicious that Aleksandrov was under the influence, officers told Aleksandrov they would be transitioning into a DUI investigation and asked Aleksandrov if he was willing to participate in standard field sobriety exercises, which he agreed to, the report said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Aleksandrov failed the exercises, and officers conducted a breathalyzer test, which revealed that Aleksandrov&#8217;s BAC was between 0.225% and 0.226%, the report said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Aleksandrov was arrested and faces charges of DUI and DUI property damage.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"7\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014 A man was arrested in Cape Coral after being accused of DUI in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,1776,13516,2344,2675,5695,104,168075,213,2391,1224,4176,3395,732,221],"class_list":["post-427523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-crash","tag-del-prado-boulevard-north","tag-download","tag-driver","tag-dui","tag-entertainment","tag-kristryan-aleksandrov","tag-late-news","tag-man","tag-officer","tag-report","tag-tesla","tag-vehicle","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}