Yeah! I was thinking the same thing. This story is extremely hard to believe...it's kind of difficult for a police office to mistake "swollen lip" for "drunk driving." Also, learn to write, OP. If you're old enough to drive, you're old enough to write semi-well.

You can't possibly tell OP to "learn to write" and then say "police office". I live about 50 miles away from OP and understood the FML perfectly fine. Sounds entirely feasible to me.

Sum 41 :)

You do realize that accident reports are written up and have to be submitted. You don't even get an official police report at the scene of an accident.... so no actually another cop responding to a completely different incident would not know about an accident reported within minutes of that accident. And, since OP could not communicate why he was in the condition he was in it the cop would not have known. Besides the fact when cops run your license it pulls up tickets and warrants, not whether or not you have been hit.

We can read just fine. A cop would have to have a real reason to take you in, even just for suspicion. That is why most do field sobriety tests in the first place. Get some common sense. A few words garbled by a busted lip (that should be OBVIOUS to the officer if it's enough to cause speech problems, be it swollen or cut) is no reason to warrant an arrest for suspicion.