MIDDLETOWN, Conn. (CBS Connecticut) - A Middletown woman is accused of driving drunk after drinking a half a bottle of hand sanitizer.
According to The Middletown Press, police say 36-year-old Jennifer Wilcox lost control of her car on Oct. 5, almost crashing into another vehicle.
Officers arrested her after she failed a field sobriety test, blowing a blood alcohol level of .17. Wilcox "admitted to drinking one half of a bottle of hand sanitizer," police told the Press.
Wilcox told WTNH-TV that she drank the bottle of hand sanitizer on her own merit.
"I just saw it there so I drank it," Wilcox told the station.
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