A Lawrence County police officer investigating a car accident should not have asked a 59-year-old woman involved in the crash to perform the so-called “one-leg” portion of a field sobriety test, because of her age and the violent nature of the accident, a Lawrence County Common Pleas Court judge has ruled.

Citing a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration manual and a 2002 Superior Court decision, President Judge Dominick Motto ruled that the test, as it applied to Danniel Weaver, was “unreliable.”

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