RALEIGH, N.C. — Speaker of the House Tim Moore on Friday described the moment when a driver charged with driving while impaired rammed into him and others inside an unmarked car from behind.
"This fellow, we were going highway speeds, came in behind us at a high rate of speed and rammed into the back of us," Moore said. Once, then hit again, and then hit again at least a third time."
Police charged James Matthew Brogden, 38, of Goldsboro, with DWI, resisting an officer and damage to property following the Thursday night crash, which occurred around 9:45 p.m. on Interstate 87 in Wake County.
The state Department of Public Safety said Brogden was inside a Chevy pickup truck. The driver was taken to the hospital by ambulance before he was jailed.
No one inside Moore's unmarked SUV was injured, and Moore does not believe he was targeted, although he said it felt that way at the time.
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