- Ceijai Broughton was driving on a highway 400 near Alpharetta, Georgia, on September 28 at 4.30am when she hit and injured an officer
- At the time of the crash officer Jomo Bent was in his fully-marked city patrol car with all of his emergency lights on as he directed traffic for a construction crew
- Dashcam video shows Broughton yelling and pulling away from officers
- She claimed to have only had one beer at 7pm but failed a Breathalyzer test
- She was charged with DUI, following too closely and violating the move over law
A woman has been charged with DUI after hitting a police officer who was directing traffic in a police squad car in Georgia on September 28.
Ceijai Broughton was allegedly driving drunk on September 28 when she hit and injured an officer on highway 400 near Alpharetta at 4.30am.
At the time of the crash, Officer Jomo Bent was in his fully marked city patrol car with all of his emergency lights flashing as he provided traffic and safety control to the construction crew.
‘I saw the lights and I tried to move over but I didn’t move over in time,’ the divorced mother-of-two who appears to be in her late 20s told the officers.
The police dashcam video shows Broughton yelling and pulling away from officers after she was placed under arrest for DUI.
Ceijai Broughton, pictured, was arrested for drunk driving on September 28 near Alpharetta, Georgia, at 4.30am after she hit a police car in a construction zone
At the time of the crash, Officer Jomo Bent was in his fully marked city patrol car with all of his emergency lights flashing as he provided traffic and safety control to the construction crew
‘There is nothing else on me, do not touch me in any form, shape or anything,’ she says as an officer pats her down.
He then asks her what she’s had to drink. She says that she had one beer at 7pm, about eight-and-a-half hours earlier.
The footage shows her taking a field sobriety test. Police said she failed the breathalyzer.
Broughton told police she was heading home after her shift as a bartender, but her employer said she wasn’t at work but at a club instead.
When officers started to search her car, Broughton got upset, saying they didn’t have the right to search without a warrant.
‘We don’t have to ask you,’ the officer says. ‘Your car now temporarily belongs to us.’
Broughton was taken to the hospital and then arrested and charged with DUI, following too closely and violating the move over law.
Bent was also taken to a hospital and later released.