Mom Charged With DUI After Quakerbridge Road Crash

A Lawrence Township woman was arrested and charged with driving under the influence and related offenses after the sport utility vehicle she was driving crashed on Quakerbridge Road Tuesday afternoon (July 31), township police said.

The woman’s two young children – a 1-year-old boy and a 5-year-old girl – were riding in the vehicle at the time, police added.

Police were alerted to the accident in the 4000 block of Quakerbridge Road, between Lawrence Square Boulevard North and Lawrence Square Boulevard South, just after 4 p.m. Tuesday.

The first 911 caller reported that a vehicle had flipped over and that a woman and her small children were trapped in the wreckage, but subsequent callers advised police that the auto was resting on its wheels and that the woman and her children had been able to get out on their own, according to township police spokesman Lt. Mark Ubry.

Responding officers, emergency medical personnel and volunteer firefighters indeed found the vehicle upright and the driver and her children suffering only from minor complaints of pain, Ubry said.

He said the family was transported by ambulance to Capital Health Regional Medical Center in Trenton to be check out as a precaution.

Following an investigation by Officer Marc Poveromo, the woman – identified as 28-year-old Kelli Houlihan – was charged with driving under the influence, DUI while with minors in the vehicle, reckless driving, possession of an open container of alcohol in the vehicle, and failure to maintain a lane, according to Ubry.

Quakerbridge Road was closed to traffic for about 50 minutes because of the accident, he said, noting that police from Hamilton and West Windsor townships helped detour traffic.