Prosecutors blame Judge Keith Blankenship’s refusal to take a breathalyzer test for having to reduce the charge

On April 27, M. Keith Blankenship, 43, was driving north on Huguenot Springs Road in a 2006 Subaru Forester at 5:15 p.m. when he swerved off the right side of the road and struck a telephone-line box, a state police spokeswoman said.

Juvenile and Domestic Relations court judge Keith Blankenship faces another serious traffic charge.

Michael Keith Blankenship is accused of failing to report an accident.

In an arrest warrant, a trooper says Blankenship argued with him for several minutes refusing to get out of the car and said he was judge and “was not going to do any tests”

State Police arrested Judge M. Keith Blankenship on Interstate 81 over the weekend