• State police are investigating the report of a stolen
vehicle in Chadds Ford Township. A report said a 1991 Dodge caravan, maroon in
color, was stolen from the parking lot near Arby’s in Painters Crossing
shopping center. The victim, a 70-year-old woman, reportedly told police she
parked the van at 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 5, but that it was gone 30 minutes later. The missing
van sows damage near the gas cap area in the rear on the driver’s side. The tag
number is EJR0874.
• Pennsylvania State Police
from the Avondale barracks reported that 60 Vicoden pills were stolen from a
home on Pennsbury Way West in Pennsbury Township. Police said the incident
happened sometime between Jan. 3 and Jan. 5. According to the report, the unknown
suspect entered the home through an unknown door, stole the pills and then fled through a sliding rear
door.
• Pennsylvania State Police
from Troop K, Media barracks, are looking for two people, a white man and a
white woman, who reportedly stole a purse from a shopper outside the Acme
Supermarket in Concordville. According to a police press release, a
surveillance video shows the suspect couple driving up to the victim as she was
pushing her shopping cart in the store parking lot. The female suspect reached
out and grabbed the victim’s purse from the top shelf of the cart, the report
said. The suspects were in a late model, tan, Dodge Caravan.
• Police report no injuries in
a two-car accident on Brinton Lake Road in Concord Township on Dec. 31. A
police report said a Chadds Ford woman was driving north on Route 1 when she
made a left turn onto Brinton Lake Road in front of an oncoming car. The
southbound driver could not avoid hitting the turning car, the report said.
Both vehicles sustained heavy damage.
• Minor injuries were reported
following a New Year’s Day traffic accident on Route 202 at State Farm Drive.
According to police, the 7:55 p.m. accident happened when a vehicle going south
on Route 202 drove through a red light and struck a vehicle crossing Route 202
from State Farm Drive. The injured passenger was transported to Riddle Memorial
Hospital. Both vehicles were towed from the scene.
• A 34-year-old man from Glen
Mills told police that someone stole an iPod, a Sony laptop computer and $1,800
in cash from his car that was parked in the lot at the Texas Roadhouse
Restaurant. A police report said the car was broken into when the perpetrator
punched out the keyhole of the victim’s driver side door.
• Eleven people were killed and 220 others were
injured in the 693 crashes investigated by Pennsylvania State Police during the
four-day New Year’s holiday driving period, Commissioner Frank E. Pawlowski
announced in a press release.
“Although the number of fatalities jumped from six to 11 compared to last
year’s holiday driving period, crashes decreased by nearly 39 percent and the
number of people injured dropped almost 24 percent,” Pawlowski said.
He said 76 of the crashes to which troopers responded from Dec. 30, 2010,
through Jan. 2, 2011, were alcohol-related, including four crashes that
resulted in a total of five deaths. Six of the 11 people who died in crashes
were not wearing seat belts, he said.
Pawlowski said troopers made 267 arrests for driving under the influence and
issued 4,012 speeding citations during the holiday period. State police also
cited 458 persons for failure to wear seat belts and issued citations to 42
drivers for failing to restrain children properly in child safety seats.
During last year’s four-day New Year’s holiday driving period, six people were
killed and 288 others were injured in 1,131 crashes investigated by state
police.
The crash numbers cover only those incidents investigated by state police and
do not include statistics on crashes to which other law-enforcement agencies
responded.
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