Tim Willert
HILLSIDE DISTRICT -- Talk about being asleep at the wheel.
A Texas man arrested early Thursday morning on suspicion of driving
under the influence of an intoxicant apparently nodded off while driving
his car, police said.
Ralph Addington, 50, was behind the wheel of his late-model Ford
Mustang when Burbank police officers spotted the car facing westbound on
Harvard Road near 3rd Street about 5:40 a.m., Burbank Police Sgt. John
Dilibert said.
"It looks like he made the turn off of Glenoaks [Boulevard] onto
Harvard and just stalled or stopped," Dilibert said. "The gentleman was
asleep behind the wheel."
Officers were on routine patrol near the intersection of Magnolia and
Glenoaks boulevards when a passing bicyclist told them that a car
appeared to have stalled in the middle of Harvard Road, Dilibert said.
The car was still running and was in gear when officers decided to get
a closer look, woke the man from his slumber, gave him a field sobriety
test and took him into custody, Dilibert said.
