The arrest of a 30-year-old man from Voorheesville for drunk driving after a one-car accident on the Northway led to minor injury to the investigating State Trooper.  

According to the New York State Police, Joel Z. Fish was driving south on Interstate 87 near exit 22 in Warren County when he ran off the road and crashed through a the heavy-duty cable guide wire between the roadway and the median shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday evening.

The responding State Trooper, Joel Vanderpol, was injured as he was clearing guide-wire debris from the shoulder of the road, said State Police public information officer, Beau Duffy.  It’s believed that  a wire piece in a traffic lane  was caught up in the wheel of a passing truck and struck Vanderpol’s leg.

Vanderpol was transported to Glens Falls Hospital where he was found to have sustained contusions and was later released.

Fish was arrested on a driving-while-intoxicated charge after he failed sobriety tests at the scene Duffy said; he subsequently refused to submit to a chemical test at the New York State Police Troop G station in Latham, and was remanded to Warren County Jail in lieu of bail.