{"id":980,"date":"2025-10-15T06:19:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/980\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:19:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:19:20","slug":"24-year-old-pennsylvania-man-charged-with-dui-after-wrong-way-crash-on-route-2-in-east-hartford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/980\/","title":{"rendered":"24-year-old Pennsylvania man charged with DUI after wrong-way crash on Route 2 in East Hartford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) \u2014 A 24-year-old man from Pennsylvania was arrested Sunday in East Hartford after he allegedly drove the wrong way on Route 2 and caused a crash, according to state police.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtnh.com\/news\/connecticut\/windham\/csp-wrong-way-drivers-bac-was-three-times-legal-limit\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" target=\"&quot;_blank&quot;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\tCSP: Wrong-way driver\u2019s BAC was three times legal limit\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Route 2 Eastbound in the area of Exit 2B. Nolan Murphy-Genoa, 24, was driving the wrong way when he crashed into another vehicle that was operated by a 20-year-old woman, according to state police. She was taken to the hospital with suspected minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>State police said that Murphy-Genoa fled the scene after the crash, but was later located and taken into custody. He showed multiple signs of impairment in his speech and actions, police said.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with DUI, reckless driving, evading responsibility, wrong way driving and first-degree reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy-Genoa was released on a $5,000 cash bond and is scheduled to appear in court on Oct. 29.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"720\" width=\"859\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Untitled-design-25.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2374985\"  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EAST HARTFORD, Conn. (WTNH) \u2014 A 24-year-old man from Pennsylvania was arrested Sunday in East Hartford after he&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1043,1044,1045,1052,28,30,1051,29,1046,1047,1048,487,1050,1049],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-connecticut-state-police","tag-csp","tag-east-hartford","tag-hershey-pa","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-man","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-route-2","tag-route-2-east-hartford","tag-route-2-eastbound","tag-state-police","tag-wrong-way-driver","tag-wrong-way-driving"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}