Car misses hairpin turn in New Windsor, hits house
Michael Randall ‘December 28, 2006′
December 28, 2006
New Windsor — Cars often whiz through the hairpin turn on Union Avenue where it intersects with Erie Avenue.
Several times over the years, they’ve hit the chain-link fence in front of a house that sits by that turn.
Then, on Tuesday night, one of those cars hit the house. The impact knocked a TV inside off its stand. “It came right through the fence, knocked down trees,” a woman who lives in the house, who declined to give her name, said yesterday. “I was so upset last night.”
She was working at the time, but her daughter and a friend were inside. They were not hurt. The crash happened around 9:45 p.m. Tuesday.
After the crash, the driver fled on foot. Yesterday, town police were still trying to nail down his identity.
Sgt. Fred Fayo said officers, including K-9 teams, checked the area Tuesday night but didn’t find him.
Eastbound Union Avenue traffic in that area comes down an incline before entering the sharp turn to the left. A few dozen feet farther on, drivers have to cope with a second sharp turn, that one to the right.
But Fayo, who’s been on the force 22 years, said crashes there are “very rare, actually. You would think it would be to the contrary.”
Still, the woman whose house was hit thinks the 40 mph speed limit should be reduced before someone is killed.
“This whole strip should be 20 to 30 mph,” she said.
