ROSELLE — The off-duty city officer who police say crashed his car while driving the wrong way on a Staten Island highway last week, fatally injuring a fellow officer and a passenger and critically injuring another officer, crashed through the wall of a Roselle store in 2011 during one of two drunk driving incidents, according to police reports.

Police say Linden Officer Pedro Abad drove his Audi A5 into the New Way Supermarket on St. George Avenue in Jan. 2011 and was charged with driving under the influence.

"The vehicle put a hole completely through the building causing damage to the structure," Roselle Officer Kendall Vaughn said in his report of the Jan. 22, 2011 accident involving Linden Officer Pedro Abad at the New Way Supermarket at the intersection of St. George Avenue and Rivington Street. (See the accident investigation report below.)

On Friday, Abad, 27, a six-year veteran of the department, was driving a Honda Civic shortly before 5 a.m when he drove north in the southbound lanes of the West Shore Expressway, then crashed head-on into a tractor-trailer. Another officer in the car, Frank Viggiano, 28, and a Linden resident, Joseph Rodriguez, 28, were fatally injured in the crash. Abad and a third Linden officer, Patrik Kudlac, 23, were critically injured. They remained in critical condition in separate hospitals in Staten Island today. A funeral for Rodriguez was held today.

In his report of the 2011 Roselle accident, Officer Vaughn said when he arrived, Abad "was unconscious with a bloody nose and was sitting in the driver seat."

Three Linden police officers and two Union County police officers were at the scene before Vaughn arrived, according to the report.

Abad was driving south on St. George Avenue at about 3:45 a.m. when he lost control of his black 2010 Audi A5, went off the road, struck a stop sign and street sign on the north side of Rivington Street, continued across the street, went over a curb and into the side of the New Way Supermarket, according to the police report.

A Roselle firefighter who was assisting later told police he smelled a strong odor of alcohol on Abad and said Abad stated in the ambulance that he had had two mixed drinks at a local club, according to the report. Vaughn also reported smelling alcohol on Abad. Abad was unable to give a statement because of his injuries, according to the report.

Police subsequently charged Abad with driving while intoxicated and careless driving.

Abad was taken to University Hospital in Newark, and another Roselle officer went to the hospital with a blood test kit and blood was drawn from Abad, the report states. The results of that test were not listed in the report or immediately available from borough officials.

However, it is unclear what happened to the charges. Records of the case in Roselle municipal court show the charges were dismissed. The case file was not immediately available, according to borough officials.

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Records at the state Motor Vehicle Commission show that Abad had an accident on the date of the Roselle crash, Jan. 22, 2011, but the records do not say where the accident occurred and do not indicate any charges were filed.

After the Roselle accident, the New Way Supermarket remained closed for a month because of the damage, said Ravi Patel, co-owner of the store.

"The entire car was inside the store, except for the trunk," said Patel, whose family has owned the store for more than 20 years. The store was closed at the time of the accident.

"If we were working he would have hit us, because the part of the store the car hit is right where we stand, at the register with our backs to the wall," Patel said.

He said he had only heard rumors an officer was driving the car.

"A few days later some people said it was a cop who was driving but we never knew for sure," he said.

"Wow, that's wrong," Patel said when informed Abad was the driver who crashed into the store. "He shouldn't have been a cop anymore. If police officers are giving regular people violations for drinking and driving, why should an officer be allowed to drink and drive?"

Abad was also charged with driving while intoxicated on Feb. 26, 2013 in Rahway and had his license suspended. The 2013 incident took place around 5 a.m. on a Tuesday, when Abad drove his 2011 BMW 335 into a parked car and was unable to complete a sobriety test, according to a police report. In a police dash camera video from that incident, Abad is seen stumbling, slurring his words, unable to complete a sobriety test and asking for "Officer Webb," an officer on the scene, saying he knows him from the academy.

Abad also received a violation for using a cell phone while driving following a crash on Aug. 19, 2012 in Linden, according to MVC records. In all, Abad was in eight accidents from Sept. 2005 to June 2013, according to state records.

The NYPD confirmed the four men in Friday's accident were at the Curves strip club before the crash. Police said detectives are reviewing video surveillance and interviewing staff at the club to determine if the men had been drinking and have applied for a warrant to test Abad's blood for alcohol.

Linden police have declined to comment on the charges but today issued the following statement:

ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION REPORT

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