Police arrest Lake George driver found unconscious behind wheel

LAKE GEORGE -- Police arrested the driver of a vehicle they say struck construction barricades and left the scene before he was found passed out behind the wheel of his car elsewhere in the village.

Police officers from the Warren County Sheriff's Department found 52-year-old Michael Vittengl of Lake George unconscious in his 2003 Cadillac Escalade on Lower Amherst St. near Duffy's Bar early Friday morning.

Police had been searching for his vehicle after an officer discovered an accident scene on Canada St. near the exit 22 overpass, where Vittengl's vehicle had allegedly struck barricades and a guide rail and left the scenes, said the Sheriff's Department.

After conducting a field sobriety test, police determined Vittengl was intoxicated and arrested him for driving while intoxicated.

He was processed at the Queensbury station and submitted to a breath test, which showed a blood alcohol content level of .16 percent.

Vittengl was ticketed for DWI, driving with a BAC greater than .08 percent, leaving the scene of a property damge accident and operating to the right of a property damage.

Vittengl is scheduled to appear in Lake George Town Court at a later date.