Boca Raton Woman Charged With DUI, Driving on Wrong Side of Dixie Highway

Sharon Rak (Photo: Palm Beach County Jail)

A Boca Raton woman was charged with DUI after allegedly driving on the wrong side of the road along Dixie Highway and nearly colliding with a police vehicle. She was additionally charged with driving drunk with a person under the age of 18 in the vehicle.

According to a police report, Sharon Rak, 63, was pulled over by a Boca Raton police sergeant on N. Dixie Highway, just south of Glades Road just after 9 p.m. Monday night. The report stated Rak was driving her black Acura northbound in the southbound lanes of the roadway, approaching the sergeant’s vehicle which was driving southbound in the correct direction. The sergeant activated his lights and sirens, which caused the driver of the Acura – later identified as Rak – to “cut across the lanes of travel” to get back to the proper lanes.

Police began an investigation into whether Rak was driving while intoxicated after she allegedly appeared to be slurring her words and handed the officer her medical insurance card instead of her car insurance card. Rak, the report said, told officers she was trying to get to Palmetto Park Road, but turned the wrong way out of a pizzeria and ended up near Glades Road. She said she did not realize she was driving in the wrong lane.

After a number of rain-delayed field sobriety tests were completed, Rak was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and recorded a blood alcohol content level of .18 and .17 during two breath tests. Florida’s legal limit for alcohol intoxication is .08. Police also found what appeared to be an alcoholic beverage, still cold, in her vehicle’s cup holder, the report stated.

Rak was released from custody several hours later on $1,000 cash bond.