It began with an argument about 11:30 p.m., Leesburg police said. [Justin Flanagan], 25, was riding shotgun as his 20-year-old girlfriend drove west on the Route 7 bypass in Leesburg. The two began to quarrel, and Flanagan ripped the window crank from his door, hurled it at the woman’s forehead and demanded to be let out of the car, police said.

Flanagan then grabbed the steering wheel, causing the woman to lose control and sending the car careening into a median at West Market Street, police said. An officer gave the pair sobriety tests. Police said that Flanagan’s girlfriend passed. Flanagan failed.

David Oblon, an Arlington lawyer whose firm handles many DWI cases, said he was not surprised by Flanagan’s charge. He cited the case of John Terry Dugger, a passenger convicted of DWI, who took his case to the Virginia Supreme Court. According to the court’s 2003 ruling, Dugger was riding in the passenger seat of a car that his sister was driving from Petersburg to Richmond in 2001. As the two quarreled, Dugger seized the wheel and sent the car sailing into a guardrail, leading to a DWI charge.

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