A Delaware teacher with a history of alcohol-related arrests is facing sentencing for drunken driving and other crimes following an incident in which he damaged multiple cars in an eight-vehicle crash.
Forty-five-year-old Martin Tuohy of Middletown is scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning in Sussex County. Tuohy was charged by Rehoboth Beach police after a two-week investigation into the July 7 incident
According to Rehoboth Beach police, the night of July 7, 2018, Tuohy went on a drunken driving rampage that began with him backing his Dodge Ram pickup truck into a woman's Subaru Forrester after she had stopped to allow Tuohy to back out of his parking space.
After that first crash, Tuohy fled the scene, but not before veering to the left lane and hitting an unoccupied Hyundai that was parked on the median, police said.
Tuohy continued down Rehoboth Avenue and struck a parked Ford Explorer, causing "extensive" damage and pushing it up onto the median and partially on top of an unoccupied Toyota Corolla parked next to it.
Police say Tuohy then hit an unoccupied Ford Fusion that was also parked in the median, knocking the bumper off the car and losing the left front wheel of his own pickup in the process.
The man continued to drive on three wheels and struck a Toyota RAV4 occupied by a Norristown couple who were stopped for a red light at the intersection of Rehoboth Avenue and Second Street, police said.
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Tuohy then drove onto the sidewalk, hit a bike rack, got off the sidewalk and struck a Honda Pilot occupied by four people that had stopped to let two women cross the intersection, police said. The collision caused the Honda to spin 180 degrees into the intersection and the four people inside had to be taken to a hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries, according to the department.
The man then continued driving, got on a sidewalk again and finally stopped when he crashed into a light pole.
Tuohy pleaded guilty last month to fourth-offense drunken driving, two counts of vehicular assault and two counts of reckless endangering. At the time, he was facing trial in a separate case after being arrested for public intoxication.
Tuohy worked for several years at Christiana High School. He pleaded guilty to DUI in 2008 and entered a first-offenders program. He was convicted of reckless driving in another DUI case in 2017.
