Lohan’s father charged with DWI
——————–BY ANN GIVENS
STAFF WRITERFebruary 19, 2005, 1:08 PM EST
The father of teen actress and singer Lindsay Lohan drove strong into a telephone pole in Syosset early today barely escaping his car before it ignited in a ball of fire, Nassau police said.
Michael Lohan, 44, of Laurel Hollow, was driving a friend’s car south on Cold Spring Road just after midnight when he veered off the road and careened into a telephone pole, knocking it down and leaving live wires scattered across the road, police said.
According to police, a visibly drunk Lohan was able to get out of the car, but then returned for his belongings and was pulled from 2005 Volvo stationwagon by a Syosset firefighter just before the car burst into flames. He was alone in the car and was not injured, but was taken to Nassau University Medical Center in East Meadow to be checked over.
Lohan covered his face and declined to say anything as he was led by police to his court appearance in First District Court in Hempstead this morning. He faces charges of driving while intoxicated and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, police said, adding that he was driving with a suspended license.
The accident was the most recent in a series of scrapes with the law by Lohan. Last June he was arrested and charged with assaulting his brother-in-law with a shoe at a North Merrick communion party and he was arrested twice in the fall for driving while intoxicated and violating a restraining order taken out by his estraged wife, Lindsay’s mother, police said.
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