• A two-vehicle accident in the northbound lanes of Route 1
near Brandywine Drive Tuesday morning injured at least two people. Rescue
workers used the Jaws of Life to cut one person out of an overturned vehicle. No
press release with details was available by press time. Traffic was backed up
down to Ring Road.
• Anthony Dambrossio Jr., 19, of Aston, was arrested for DUI
following a traffic stop on Route 1 north of Independence Way in Pennsbury
Township at 1:19 a.m. on Jan. 8, a state police report said. No other
information was included.
• New upgrades to the Pennsylvania Lottery’s self-service terminals will
aid efforts to recover abducted children through the state’s Amber Alert system,
state officials announced.
Pennsylvania State Police acting Commissioner Jon D. Kurtz and Lottery
Interim Executive Director Drew Svitko marked National Amber Alert Awareness
Day by announcing that the Lottery now has the capability to show Amber Alert details
and photos of abducted children and suspects on the 17-inch flat-panel displays
used by more than 8,700 retail locations across Pennsylvania.
Kurtz said that during the past nine years, the state’s Amber Alert
system has played a direct role in the safe recovery of 32 abducted children.
“These children were in imminent danger of death or serious bodily
injury,” he said in a press release. “Members of the public often provide the
crucial information that leads to a child’s safe return. The more people who
are made aware of a missing child, the more likely it becomes that the child
will be returned home safely.”
Kurtz reminded Pennsylvanians that they can receive electronic
notifications on abducted child cases via the state’s alert system, known as
AlertPA.
“AlertPA provides emergency alerts, notifications and updates about
Pennsylvania Amber Alerts and other emergency situations to cell phones,
pagers, smart phones, PDAs and e-mail accounts,” Kurtz said.
He encouraged individuals to register for an AlertPA account directly
through at alert.pa.gov or through www.amber.state.pa.us. Individuals with
preexisting accounts now can modify their subscription to include Pennsylvania
Amber Alerts.
The Pennsylvania Amber Alert System, which was established in 2002,
provides information about child abductions through radio and television
broadcast messages, Lottery retail terminals, digital billboards, highway
advisory signs, text messages and e-mails.
In addition to the Pennsylvania Lottery, other agencies and
organizations that partner with state police in operating the Amber Alert
System are the Pennsylvania Association of Broadcasters, PennDOT, Pennsylvania
Turnpike Commission, Pennsylvania Chiefs of Police Association, Broadband Cable
Association of Pennsylvania, Municipal Police Officers’ Education and Training
Commission, Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, Pennsylvania Newspaper
Association, Outdoor Advertising Association of Pennsylvania and AlertPA.
“The partners play key roles in building public awareness of the
system, providing training to law enforcement officers who use the system, and
implementing revisions in the system that result from legislative changes,”
Kurtz said.
