(Published Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014) 
 
 A Long Island woman says in a lawsuit that her 29-year-old son died in a drunken driving crash because police decided not to arrest him on DWI charges earlier that night. Kathi Fedden claims in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Central Islip on Monday that police had Peter Fedden's car towed to a nearby schoolyard and then drove him home, even though he was "severely intoxicated" and visibly injured. County officials also could not be reached for comment Tuesday night. He crashed in Hauppauge minutes later after driving at speeds over 100 mph and died, the complaint says. Restaurant chain Ruby Tuesday's is also named in the lawsuit, because Fedden was drinking there before the two crashes, according to Thomasson. A spokesman for Ruby Tuesday could not be reached for comment Tuesday night. "Peter served many Suffolk County police officers at his deli, and it was known throughout the local officers that Peter charged only $1 for officers to eat at the deli no matter what they ordered," the lawsuit says. Kathi Fedden's attorney, Harry M. Thomasson of Wantagh, could not be reached Tuesday night.
– Peter Fedden was picked up by police the night of July 30, 2013, after drunkenly plowing his car through a fence, across a couple of lawns, and into the side of a house in Commack, NY. It's at this point that Fedden's mom, Kathi Fedden, thinks police should have arrested her 29-year-old son for DWI, according to a $30 million wrongful-death lawsuit she filed Monday against the police, Newsday reports. But instead, cops dropped a "severely intoxicated" Peter off at home, where he got right into his mother's car sitting in the driveway and crashed it minutes later into the side of an industrial park building. He died from injuries sustained in the second crash. Kathi Fedden says the police let Peter off the hook the first time because of his rapport with them at the deli he owned in Commack. "Peter served many Suffolk County police officers at his deli, and it was known throughout the local officers that Peter charged only $1 for officers to eat at the deli no matter what they ordered," the suit says. Because of this relationship, Kathi Fedden claims, the police "conspired to avoid charging Peter with any crimes" and "carelessly disregarded Peter's safety ... and actually created the events leading to Peter's wrongful death." Also named in the suit: Ruby Tuesday, which reportedly served Peter two drinks—10 ounces of Jack Daniel's whiskey over soda and ice—the night he died, Newsday notes. While sympathetic to the Fedden family, the owner of the building Peter crashed into tells NBC New York, "He put the community in harm's way. He decided to take the law into his own hands by getting into a second car that evening." (One drunk driver made an impact with this powerful confession.)