WESTPORT — A 34-year-old man, allegedly driving drunk, struck two vehicles in a local construction zone and fled the scene this week, according to State Police.

Jose Ernesto Velazquez-Pastrana, of Bridgeport, faces a series of charges in connection with the incident, which took place in the construction zone near Interstate 95’s northbound Exit 17 shortly after 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, the report said.

State Police at Troop G in Bridgeport were alerted to the accidents by a caller who said he was tailing a black Honda that had just struck his car and a truck in the local stretch of I-95 currently under reconstruction. 

The driver, according to the caller, left the scene without stopping and headed north on I-95.

A state trooper dispatched to investigate the report located the black Honda traveling near the highway’s northbound Exit 20, and “observed that it was drifting from the median into the center lane, failing to properly maintain a travel lane,” according to the report.

When the Honda driver was pulled over at Exit 23, the trooper noticed the car had front-end damage, police said.

Asked if he had been drinking, Velazquez-Pastrana allegedly admitted to consuming alcohol earlier in the evening, and agreed to take a field sobriety test, which he failed to perform to standard, according to the report.

Velazquez-Pastrana was taken into custody and transported to Troop G in Bridgeport, where he was charged with driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, failure to maintain the lane in a construction zone,  evading responsibility in a construction zone and failure to move over for a non-emergency vehicle in a construction zone.

He was released after posting $1,000 and is scheduled to be arraigned April 25 at state Superior Court in Bridgeport.