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Officer Robert A. Thibault Jr. sits in his squad car at the Baldwinsville Police Department in this 2011 file photo. Thibault, who was named 2010 Officer of The Year, was involved in a one-vehicle crash is the summer of 2012 and refused to cooperate with responding officers.

(Syracuse.com | The Post-Standard, file photo 2011)

BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y. -- A Baldwinsville Police Department officer who refused to cooperate with police after a suspected DWI crash last summer is keeping his job, according to Baldwinsville Police Chief Michael Lefancheck.

Officer Robert A. Thibault Jr. was off-duty when he was involved in a one-vehicle crash at 4:46 p.m. June 21 on county Route 37 in West Monroe, according to state police. Thibault refused to cooperate with the state police investigation and another man in the car, Nicholas A. Smith, provided conflicting stories about who was driving.

Oswego County District Attorney Greg Oakes said in October that no charges will be filed against either man because investigators cannot determine who was driving the car. Lefancheck said at the time that the police department was conducting an internal investigation.

Lefancheck said recently that the investigation has been resolved and concluded.

"Officer Thibault continues to be employed by the department," Lefancheck said in an email Wednesday.

The police chief did not respond to a request to comment further on the incident or the outcome of the department's internal investigation. Thibault also did not respond to a request to comment.

State police closed its investigation without ever finding out who was driving Thibault's 2001 black Audi when it crashed. The vehicle started to go off the Oswego County road, swerved back into the opposite lane and crashed into trees, state police said.

At the scene of the accident, officers asked Thibault for blood so it could be tested for alcohol, Jack Keller, a spokesman for the state police, said in October. Officers requested the test because they noticed Thibault's eyes were glossy and bloodshot, he appeared to be disoriented and his speech was slurred, Keller said.

Thibault agreed to the test and his blood was drawn at the hospital where he had been taken after the crash, Keller said.

Police did not seek a blood test for the other man in the car, Keller said. At the time, officers believed that Thibault may have been the driver, Keller said.

What the blood test shows remains a secret because state police said the results can't be released because no charges were filed.

Smith, of Utica, at first told investigators he was driving the car, but later said Thibault was driving, Oakes said in October.

Emergency crews told state police they didn't know who was driving and by the time police arrived at the scene both men were out of the vehicle, Keller said.

Smith and Thibault were both injured and taken to Upstate University Hospital, according to state police.

Both men were not wearing seat belts, which Oakes said could have been key in determining who was driving.

"There is no physical evidence to make the determination," Oakes said.