Queen City Woman Arrested Again On Driving Under The Influence Charges After A Crash In Concord

CONCORD, NH — A woman from Manchester is facing another driving under the influence charge after a crash on Airport Road in Concord in January.

Around 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 31, officers were sent to the area of Manchester Street and Airport Road for a report of a crash. The caller told dispatch the driver, a woman, had driven into a snowbank, and she smelled like alcohol, according to an affidavit.

The first officer arrived and found a 2014 Subaru Forester between the road and Concord Nissan. The SUV had airbag deployment and “the undercarriage seemed to be destroyed,” the officer wrote.

The officer approached the SUV and spoke to the operator, identified later as Nicole E. Roy, 37, of Youville Street in Manchester, and accused her of having “bloodshot and glassy” eyes. She also had “thick, slow, slurred speech,” and smelled like alcohol, the reporting officer said.

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“I asked her what happened and she spoke too softly for me to understand her,” the office wrote in the report. “She then told me her ex-boyfriend was calling her, and she drove off the road.”

Fire and rescue teams were requested and evaluated her, but she declined services, the report said. While she was being checked, the reporting officer spoke to a witness, a man in his early 20s, who reported seeing her “drive off the road at a high rate of speed.” When the witness approached the vehicle to see if the driver was OK, he accused her of smelling like alcohol and being impaired, the report stated.

When asked if she had anything to drink, Roy said she had not, the officer wrote. The officer then asked if she had hit her head or were injured and she said no, due to wearing a seatbelt.

Roy was requested to take a field sobriety test and was unsteady on her feet and nearly fell when exiting the vehicle, the affidavit said. She walked in the new, deep snow, and into the parking lot of Concord Nissan, but was accused of struggling.

“I was concerned she was going to fall,” the officer wrote. “Roy refused my assistance.”

After going through three sets of tests, the officer asked if she was being honest about her alcohol consumption, the report said. When asked why she smelled like alcohol and her eyes displayed signs of impairment, she told the officer she smoked cannabis around 11 a.m., the report said.

Roy was arrested and “showed a variety of emotions” during the trip to police headquarters for processing, “from being nice, to crying, to yelling at (the officer) in a short span of time,” the affidavit said.

At the police station, Roy was accused of being unsteady on her feet and smelling of alcohol after being taken out of the cruiser. She walked into a wall on the ramp inside the stationhouse, a report said.

The officer also called the owner of the Subaru, who “refused to pick her up,” and called Roy “an alcoholic,” according to an affidavit.

Roy was accused of displaying “a range of emotions” while calling three people to assist her, the report said.

The officer also noted Roy was convicted of driving under the influence in Hooksett District Court in May 2023.

On Feb. 2, she pleaded not guilty to the charges.

On Feb. 5, she was granted a public defender.

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