Police Log July 3: Accident with major injury; DUIs

Posted by ChaddsFordLive on July 2, 2014

• State police reported one major injury following an accident on Route 202 at Smithbridge Road on June 24. Aldan resident Jarrel H. Williams, 28, was transported to Crozer Hospital following an accident in which a car driven by Adam D. Skomorucha made a lane change on 202, causing the collision. After the initial impact, Williams’ car spun counterclockwise and struck a traffic control pole. The car came to rest 30 feet from the initial impact. Skomorucha was cited, but unhurt.

• Kennett Square resident Sabrina Buckner was arrested for DUI in Chadds Ford Township. A police report said she was stopped at 2 a.m. on June 29 on Route 1 south at Ring Road.

• Matthew Frederick Carey, 25, of Landenberg, was arrested for DUI in Chadds Ford Township on June 28. A police report said Carey was observed making several traffic violations before being pulled over on Route 1 southbound near the Brandywine River Museum of Art. At that point it was determined that he was driving under the influence, the report said.

• State police responded to a one-vehicle crash on Beaver Valley Road in Chadds Ford Township just before midnight on June 28 and determined the driver, Sarah Rose Cronin, reportedly of Chadds Ford, to be DUI.

• Kennett Square resident Ralph R. Mecouch, 65, was cited after, police said, his car ran off the road and hit a mailbox on Route 926 in Pennsbury Township. Police also said he fled the scene. Witnesses to the June 27 incident gave police the registration number of the car. The report said Mecouch was “cited appropriately.”

• State police said retail theft charges were filed against Lynn Ellen Stewart, 27, of Glen Mills. Details were sparse, but Walmart employees contacted police about a theft on June 24. The accused was detained, processed and released, the police report said.

• A Kennett Square man was arrested for DUI in Pennsbury Township. A police report from the Avondale barracks of the Pennsylvania State Police said Scott Depalma Slesinski, 23, was arrested after a traffic stop at 2:36 a.m. on June 21.