Snow and Ice Cause Woes in Scarsdale

Multiple snowstorms and ice caused problems for residents, police and the highway department who sent out plows to clear the streets: Here are just some of the many incidents that occured this past week in Scarsdale:
Slipped: A Scarsdale woman slipped on the ice while leaving Freightway Garage at 8 am on February 10 –- and while she was down a car drove over her right foot. The driver of the car stopped to assist the pedestrian.

A 61-year-old woman from Ardsley Road slipped on the sidewalk at Spencer Place at 12:30 pm on 2/12 and hit her wrist on a cast iron utility pole. She went to White Plains Hospital where she learned her wrist was broken. She reported the incident to police on 2-14 and they investigated. Though they did not find snow or ice in the area they noticed that the bluestone was raised.

A Garth Road woman was walking on East Parkway on the afternoon of February 12 when her hand was hit by the passenger side mirror of a BMW driven by a Larch Lane woman.

Hit and run: A 2013 Cadillac parked in front of 56 Garth Road was hit by another vehicle and damaged on the afternoon of 2/14. No note was left on the car.

Accidents: A three-car accident occurred on Heathcote Road at 2:30 on February 14 after a car went around a fire truck. The driver of the car in the opposite lane attempted to stop allow the oncoming car to get around the fire truck, but skidded and hit the oncoming car head-on. She was then hit from behind by a third car. The driver of the third car complained of head pain but no medical treatment was given.

A snowplow hit a car that was parked on Church Lane near Rectory Lane at 6:40 pm on February 13.

A Hastings woman, driving a 2012 Mercedes, made a U-turn on Scarsdale Avenue on the afternoon of 2-14 and hit a 2005 Hyundai that was park and unoccupied on the street.

Two cars collided on the Post Road on the afternoon of 2-13 when a Post Road man attempted to turn into his driveway from the left lane. Both cars were traveling south on the Post Road when the car in the left lane turned into his driveway and hit a Greenacres Avenue man who was driving south on the Post Road in the right lane.

A Bronxville woman, driving on Chase Road in Scarsdale Village at 5:30 pm on 2-15, skidded and ran into a postal truck.

A Dobbs Ferry man was stopped at a light at the intersection of Walworth Avenue and Fenimore Road on Saturday 2-15 at 6 pm when he was rear-ended by a woman from Woodside driving a 2012 Honda. The woman said she skidded and was unable to stop.

Vandalism: A Forest Lane woman reported that her 2013 Mercedes was damaged while it was parked in the Christie Place garage on February 10. She parked it there on the morning of the 10th and when her son picked it up at 3:15 the windshield was cracked and there were multiple scratches on the car's hood.

No Parking: On the morning of February 10, a homeowner at 50 Ogden Road called when he found a 2001 Acura parked in his driveway without his permission. Police traced the car to a Forest Lane home where the car's owner said that his daughter had driven it to school. He agreed to move the car.

On the night of February 10, a woman driving a Mercedes southbound on the Post Road hit a pothole near the intersection of Sherbrooke Road and got a flat tire. Police set up flares around the potholes.

Police put red bags over parking meters in Scarsdale Village to clear the area for snow removal. However, some parked in the spaces, perhaps unaware of why the meters were bagged. On the morning of 2-11, police tried to contact the owners of the cars who were parked in these spaces on Depot Place to ask them to move their cars. They gave parking tickets to those who could not be reached to move their cars.

The Scarsdale Highway Department reported that many parked cars were impeding its ability to plow on February 13 and 14. They asked police to locate the owners of cars parked on Drake Road, on Ridgecrest, on Dobbs Terrace, Elm Road, Brown Road, Fox Meadow Road, Varian Lane, Gilmore Court, Circle Road and Walworth Avenue.

Just after midnight on 2/14, a Butler Road man called police for assistance when his car was plowed in by the snowplow and he could not exit his driveway.

Skateboarders: Police got a call about metal debris in the road on Madison Road at 5 pm on 2-12. They went to Madison and found that kids had set up a skateboard ramp in the road and asked them to move it.

Ice Skaters: At 1:30 pm on 2-13 police got a call about kids skating on library pond. Police asked them to leave due to dangerous conditions.

Irate Resident: Police received a call from Village Hall on the afternoon of February 10 about a woman who was being argumentative with Village staff about a parking ticket she received. Police mediated the situation and told the woman that she could fight the ticket in Village Court.

Confused: On the evening of February 16 a Cushman Road woman called police for assistance with her elderly father who has Alzheimers. The man was insisting that he was missing money, though his daughter said that he was not. Police spoke to the man and resolved the conflict.

Arrests: A Connecticut man was issued summons for operating an unregistered car with improper license plates on the evening of February 10. Police noticed a Nissan Altima with the license plate resting inside the windshield and scanned the plate, which belonged to a Dodge Intrepid. When the driver returned, police followed him and pulled him over and he claimed that he had purchased the car in Norwalk but lost the title so that he was unable to register it or insure it and was driving with a borrowed license plate. Police impounded the car and seized the license plate. They contacted the owner of the license plate who denied lending it out.

Police stopped the driver of a backhoe on the Post Road on the afternoon of 2/12 when they noticed it did not have commercial plates. The backhoe was unregistered and uninsured and the driver could not produce proof of ownership. The operator said he could not register or insure it because he did not have the title. The backhoe was parked at the Scarsdale Highway Department while police investigated. The driver's brother came to headquarters with the bill of sale and the previous owner's registration. However, police could not contact the previous owner so the backhoe was impounded.

Shantaia Young of Bridgeport, CT was stopped by police on Weaver Street at 9 pm on 2/16 when their scanner revealed that the car she was driving was not registered. The registration had been suspended due to a lapse in insurance. Young was issued a summons and the car was towed.

Fernando Vega of Mamaroneck was also stopped on Weaver Street at 7 pm on 2/16. He was also driving a car with a suspended registration as a result of a lapse in insurance. He was issued a summons and his car was towed to his home.

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