Driver accused of OUI in fatal crash

Has 2 priors for intoxication

A Tyngsboro woman is accused of operating under the influence of narcotics yesterday in a hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a motorcycle driver on Interstate 95.

Lynn E. Dewolfe, 50, was driving a 2008 Saab erratically on I-95 northbound near Exit 37 in Reading at about 10 a.m. yesterday when it hit another car, causing that car to collide with a motorcycle, state police said.

The biker was thrown from the motorcycle and was rushed by ambulance to Lahey Hospital and Medical Center in Burlington, where he was pronounced dead. His name was not immediately released.

Dewolfe kept driving on I-95 and was involved in more crashes with other vehicles between Exits 38 and 42 before she stopped near Exit 42 and was taken into custody by a Wakefield police officer and a state trooper, police said.

Police say she will be charged with operating under the influence of drugs, leaving the scene of a crash that caused personal injury and death, negligent operation of motor vehicle and a marked lanes violation and remained in custody yesterday, pending her arraignment.

Police did not specify what kind of narcotics Dewolfe is accused of using.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles revoked her license indefinitely yesterday, saying she posed an “immediate threat.”

Dewolfe has been convicted of driving while intoxicated twice before and was under orders by the RMV to install an ignition interlock breathtest device.

Her license was revoked in December 2005, a month after she was charged with her second OUI offense, according to RMV records. She was convicted of her first offense in 1987.

On May 15, 2015, Dewolfe’s license was reinstated under the condition that she drive for two years with the ignition interlock device — a requirement for anyone with two or more OUI convictions.

In March 2017, however, she violated the terms of the ignition interlock device program and was required to drive with the device for six more months, RMV records indicate.

Dewolfe would have been eligible to have the device removed on Sept. 12.

Her driving record, which dates to 1985, shows she also had six license suspensions, four surchargeable accidents, two chemical test refusals and two speeding tickets.

Dewolfe kept driving on I-95 and was involved in more crashes with other vehicles.