Early morning crash leads to wild roadway scene, according to report from the Florida Highway Patrol
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An early morning crash led to a wild scene and eventual DUI arrest on a Central Florida roadway Sunday, according to a report from state troopers. The Florida Highway Patrol says 23-year-old Aden Martinez was drunk when he ran into a guardrail in his Ford F-150 on State Road 417 in Orlando around 3:30 a.m. Sunday. That crash, according to troopers, led to a chain reaction and multiple others. Troopers say a bystander told them Martinez had been involved in a physical altercation. As they went to investigate, they saw a man force Martinez to the ground. The man told troopers he was Martinez’s father and was holding him down because Martinez was “behaving irrational[ly], yelling, appeared intoxicated by alcohol and was uncontrollable,” according to the report.That’s when, troopers say, they placed Martinez in handcuffs and put him in the back of a patrol car. Troopers say Martinez got physical as he tried to stop himself from being placed inside the car, but was eventually secured.Troope