Orange flags mark where a 17-year-old Barrington boy crashed his car through a wall next to Colt State Park on Saturday, injuring a pedestrian.

The Providence Journal / Mary Murphy

BRISTOL — Another Barrington High School student accused of being drunk behind the wheel. Another victim.

This time, it wasn’t fatal.

The 17-year-old junior fleeing Colt State Park slammed his car into a seawall along Poppasquash Road on Saturday night, the police say, injuring a 51-year-old man who survived after jumping over the low wall and onto the beach an instant before the impact.

But the teen’s 1995 Ford Thunderbird struck the wall with enough force to shatter a 10-foot-long section, sending rocks tumbling to the beach.

Timothy Rockwell, of Bristol, had his arm pinned under a tire until rescue workers arrived. He was treated at Rhode Island Hospital, released, and then readmitted. He was reported in fair condition last night.

The police said the youth, who was alone, failed a field sobriety test. Five full cans of beer and one empty beer can were recovered from the car, along with some marijuana.

The driver and his parents did not cooperate with police “so we’re kind of at an impasse” on the question of where the liquor came from, said state police Capt. James Swanberg.

The boy is being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol; driving while intoxicated, bodily injury resulting; underage possession of alcohol; possession of marijuana, and driving while in possession of a controlled substance.

He is expected to appear in Family Court, Providence, as early as tomorrow in what is becoming a pattern of alcohol-related incidents involving Barrington teenagers.

“This is yet another sad incident in a string of tragedies involving our youth, particularly those from Barrington,” said Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch. “Fortunately, in this instance, the victim survived.”

In July, 17-year-old Patrick Murphy died on the Barrington River after being struck by a boat driven by Ryan Greenberg, who failed a field sobriety test and refused to take a breath test.

He is due in Providence Superior Court tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. to be arraigned on charge of second-degree murder.

And in November, 16-year-old Jonathan Converse was killed in a car crash in which the driver, Michael J. Silveira, then 16, was subsequently sentenced to serve two years in the state Training School for driving under the influence of alcohol, death resulting.

The teens in the car with Converse had been at a party where much of the liquor had been bought at SNM Liquors, in Providence. The two youths who made the purchase, ages 16 and 17, along with a 17-year-old who arranged to get a lesser amount of beer for the party from Douglas Wine & Spirits in East Providence, were sentenced to 90 days in the Family Court’s juvenile drug and alcohol program. Benjamin W. Geldmaker, 18, who made the actual East Providence purchase, was fined $500 and ordered to undergo substance-abuse treatment.

The owner of SNM Liquors, Shawn Merilan, is awaiting a decision from the Providence Board of Licenses on whether to suspend his liquor license for two weeks after being caught in a sting operation following Converse’s death.

Merilan has faced the board for past violations involving minors. He was charged on Sept. 21, 2006, with seven counts of having an underage person on the premises with liquor; he was given a warning. He was accused of selling to a minor two weeks later; he got a $250 fine. His lawyer called the latest infraction a small, isolated incident.

Saturday’s accident began around 8:15 p.m. when a Department of Environmental Management patrol stopped the Barrington teenager at the Colt State Park tollbooth as he was leaving the park, which is closed after sunset, said Kurt Blanchard, deputy chief of the DEM’s environmental police.

As an officer approached the rear of the Thunderbird, the driver took off, taking a right onto an access road that leads to Poppasquash Road.

That access road bends left.

The driver didn’t.

Instead, he went off the road along a short paved pathway, then across a long grassy area where he struck a small hill. A large patch of grass was apparently dug up as the car landed and kept going.

The driver then allegedly plowed through some brush, crossed Poppasquash and slammed into the wall, breaking it apart.

Yesterday, 18-inch-high wire markers topped with small orange flags traced the path of the tires; their imprint was still visible in the grass.

Swanberg said the state police accident reconstruction unit had not completed its report, so he had no estimate of how fast the car was traveling.

In addition to the other charges, the driver was cited by the DEM for violating the park’s curfew, possession of alcohol on state property, and eluding police.

His identity was not released because he is a juvenile.

With staff reports from Alisha Pina and Brandie M. Jefferson

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