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Car Crashes Through School Wall In Westchester: Students Now Being Re-Routed Car Crashes Through School Wall In Westchester: Students Now Being Re-Routed
Car Crashes Through School Wall In Westchester: Students Now Being Re-Routed Students are being re-routed after a vehicle crashed into their Westchester school building, creating a gaping hole in the wall.  The incident happened in Yonkers on Tuesday morning, Oct. 10, when a motorist lost control of their vehicle and crashed into the Waring Avenue side of Yonkers Public School 9 at 53 Fairview St., Yonkers Police announced.  The collision created a gaping hole in the school's kitchen and knocked bricks from the exterior wall.  Although the school suffered damage, luckily, the incident happened before students arrived and resulted in no injuries …

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by Ben Crnic
Police & Fire
Reward Offered For Information In Serious Hit-Run Crash In Westchester Reward Offered For Information In Serious Hit-Run Crash In Westchester
Reward Offered For Information In Serious Hit-Run Crash In Westchester Police are offering a reward of up to $2,500 for information that leads to an arrest and conviction in a hit-and-run crash that happened earlier this month in Westchester County. Troopers responded to a crash on I-87 southbound in Greenburgh at about 9:40 p.m. on Saturday, June 4, according to New York State Police. Earlier report - Suspect In Sedan At Large After Hit-Run I-87 Crash With Serious Injury Police said a motorcyclist was stopped on the right shoulder of Exit 7A off-ramp when a dark-colored sedan struck the motorcycle. The motorcyclist was ejected and landed in the roadway…

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by Nicole Valinote
Police & Fire
Woman Involved In Mamaroneck Crash Drove Drunk With Baby In Car, Police Say Woman Involved In Mamaroneck Crash Drove Drunk With Baby In Car, Police Say
Woman Involved In Mamaroneck Crash Drove Drunk With Baby In Car, Police Say A woman was charged with felony DWI under Leandra's Law following a two-vehicle crash in Westchester. Sylvia Cortez, a 40-year-old resident of the Bronx, was arrested on Friday, June 19 by Village of Mamaroneck police following the crash which took place around 10:13 p.m. in the area of East Boston Post Road and North Barry Avenue. Upon interviewing Cortez, officers observed signs of alcohol intoxication and conducted a DWI investigation. Upon completion of the investigation, Cortez was placed under arrest, said Lt Mark Gatta.  At the time of the accident, Cortez was dr…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Westchester Man Airlifted After Head-On Crash Kills Three In Pennsylvania Westchester Man Airlifted After Head-On Crash Kills Three In Pennsylvania
Westchester Man Airlifted After Head-On Crash Kills Three In Pennsylvania Three people died and a Northern Westchester man was airlifted to a nearby hospital after a head-on motor-vehicle collision in Pennsylvania. The crash happened in Haycock Township, located in Bucks County, around 11:40 p.m. Friday, June 4, Pennsylvania State Police said. Initial reports say the two vehicles involved, each carrying two people, caught fire after crashing. The driver of a Chevrolet Equinox, a 26-year-old man from Ossining, was airlifted with serious injuries. His passenger, a 24-year-old woman from Rockaway, New Jersey, died. The two occupants of the Lexus ES 330 b…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Driver With 10 License Suspensions Cited After Crashing Onto Westchester Lawn Driver With 10 License Suspensions Cited After Crashing Onto Westchester Lawn
Driver With 10 License Suspensions Cited After Crashing Onto Westchester Lawn A man with 10 suspensions on his driver’s license was issued a host of citations after losing control of his car and crashing onto a front lawn in Westchester. Officers from the Scarsdale Police Department responded to a Fenimore Road home at approximately 9:50 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 6, where there was a report of a one-vehicle crash involving a driver from out of the area. Upon arrival, officers found Brooklyn resident Jerome Bennett, 33, outside of his car with his Saturn Due stopped on the front lawn of the Fenimore Road residence. Police said that Bennett told officers that he was drivin…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Details Released After Four Killed, Two Injured In Wrong-Way Southern State Parkway Crash Details Released After Four Killed, Two Injured In Wrong-Way Southern State Parkway Crash
Details Released After Four Killed, Two Injured In Wrong-Way Southern State Parkway Crash Click here for an updated story: IDs Released Of Four Killed, Several Injured In Wrong-Way Southern State Parkway Crash State Police have released details on a horrific wrong-way Long Island crash with four fatalities that happened just before daybreak on a busy stretch of the Southern State Parkway, according to state police. It involved several vehicles and happened on the eastbound side at around 5:10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, in the area of Exit 29, in the town of Oyster Bay, said state police. A Toyota sedan, with the driver as the sole occupant, was traveling westbound in the…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Man, Woman Killed In Two-Vehicle Westchester Crash Man, Woman Killed In Two-Vehicle Westchester Crash
Man, Woman Killed In Two-Vehicle Westchester Crash A man and woman were killed in a two-vehicle crash overnight in Westchester. It happened at around 11:50 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 11 in Yonkers at the intersection of Yonkers Avenue at Walnut Street. Yonkers Police Department officers responded to the scene after a Westchester County Department of Public Safety report of a motor vehicle accident with injuries.  Upon arrival, officers observed an accident scene involving one motorcycle and one motor vehicle, said Yonkers PD Detective/Lt. Dean Politopoulos. The two motorcycle occupants, a male operator and female passenger, were…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
ID Released For Man, 30, Killed In Two-Vehicle Westchester Crash ID Released For Man, 30, Killed In Two-Vehicle Westchester Crash
ID Released For Man, 30, Killed In Two-Vehicle Westchester Crash The identities have been released of the motorist killed and the other driver involved in a two-vehicle crash in Northern Westchester. It happened at about 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 27 on Kings Ferry Road in the hamlet of Montrose in the town of Cortlandt. An initial investigation by state police revealed a 2018 Jeep Grand Cherokee operated by Nadia Caterino, 32, of Cortlandt was traveling westbound on Kings Ferry Road, and attempted to make a left-hand turn onto Hunt Road.  Caterino failed to observe an eastbound 2016 Kawasaki motorcycle, operated by Matthew Hickey, 30, of Cor…

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by Joe Lombardi
News
Fatal Westchester Hit-Run Driver 'Very Remorseful' After Crash, Report Says Fatal Westchester Hit-Run Driver 'Very Remorseful' After Crash, Report Says
Fatal Westchester Hit-Run Driver 'Very Remorseful' After Crash, Report Says A man facing charges in connection to a fatal hit-and-run last month near a busy Westchester intersection was back in court on Wednesday, April 17. Shortly before 3 a.m. on Friday, March 8, officers from the Yonkers Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of Bruce Avenue and Radford Street in Yonkers, where there were reports of a man who had been hit by a car. Upon arrival at the scene, officers found 23-year-old Yonkers resident Jesus Angel Villaneuva, who was down in the roadway with serious injuries. Villaneuva was treated at the scene and transported to a local trauma c…

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Driver Gets Second DWI, Refuses Breathalyzer Following Crash In Scarsdale Driver Gets Second DWI, Refuses Breathalyzer Following Crash In Scarsdale
Driver Gets Second DWI, Refuses Breathalyzer Following Crash In Scarsdale An allegedly drunk driver with a previous DWI conviction was busted by police in Westchester after blowing through a red light and crashing into a utility pole. Members of the Scarsdale Police Department were dispatched to the intersection of Popham Road and Scarsdale Avenue shortly after 10 p.m. on Oct. 16, where there was a reported one-vehicle crash. Upon arrival at the scene of the crash, responding officers spoke with the driver, Scarsdale resident Sunil Dhuri, 52, who stated that he was traveling east on Popham Road, approaching the intersection of Scarsdale Avenue when he missed the …

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by Zak Failla
Police & Fire
Road Rage: Mercedes-Benz Driver Punches Motorist, Passenger, Police Say Road Rage: Mercedes-Benz Driver Punches Motorist, Passenger, Police Say
Road Rage: Mercedes-Benz Driver Punches Motorist, Passenger, Police Say A 35-year-old man is facing a felony charge after allegedly punching both a motorist and a passenger in the face and then ramming into their car during a road-rage incident on Route 303 in Tappan, Orangetown Police said. The incident occurred just before 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 9 when Tappan resident Stellios A. Baron, who was operating a 1985 Mercedes-Benz was involuted in a minor motor-vehicle crash with a 2017 Toyota operated by a 66-year-old Fort Lee man. Baron stopped his vehicle in front of the Toyota, exited and approached the Toyota, began yelling at the other driver and a 55-year-…

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by Joe Lombardi
Police & Fire
Member Of Armed Forces, 28, ID'd As Victim Of Fatal Westchester Crash Member Of Armed Forces, 28, ID'd As Victim Of Fatal Westchester Crash
Member Of Armed Forces, 28, ID'd As Victim Of Fatal Westchester Crash The name of a 28-year-old man who was killed in a head-on crash on Route 202 on Monday. Private First Class Carl Bradford was the victim of the crash which occurred around 7 a.m. near 3655 Crompond Road in Yorktown, according to Col. Richard Goldenberg of the New York National Guard. Yorktown Police reported that one of the drivers reportedly veered into the wrong lane, leading to the crash. Bradford, of Pennsylvania, was a motor vehicle transport operator in the 719th Transportation Company, currently based at the Camp Smith Training Site in Cortlandt Manor.  He first joined the armed for…

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by Kathy Reakes
Police & Fire
Suspect Arrested In Hit-Run That injured Motorcyclist In Mamaroneck Suspect Arrested In Hit-Run That injured Motorcyclist In Mamaroneck
Suspect Arrested In Hit-Run That injured Motorcyclist In Mamaroneck A 61-year-old Fairfield County man has been identified as the suspect who fled the scene of a hit-and-run that left a motorcyclist hospitalized in Mamaroneck on Sunday. Police confirmed that Bridgeport resident Hugo Echeverri was arrested this week after he allegedly struck a motorcyclist shortly before 10 p.m. on Boston Post Road and proceeded to flee the scene.  The motorcyclist was transported to Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx for treatment of injuries that were believed to be non-life-threatening. The man’s condition was not immediately available on Friday morning. Echeverri has b…

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by Zak Failla