Top Of A Truck Shorn Off, And More Collisions In Newtown

NEWTOWN, CT — These are a few of the motoring mishaps that made it on to the Newtown Police blotter this week.

On Jan. 11 at 7:52 in the morning, police were dispatched to the area of Buttonshop Road and South Main Street on a report of a hit-and-run.

After some investigation, police determined Elizabeth Mary Gaudiosi, 22, of Division Avenue in Shelton had fled the scene of a minor two car accident.

Patrol Officer Benjamin Mulhall said that Gaudiosi "displayed a Taser to the driver of the other vehicle involved" before fleeing the site of the collision.

Police charged Gaudiosi with evading responsibility, unsafe passing, second-degree threatening and illegal possession of a weapon in a motor vehicle. She was released on a written promise to appear in Danbury Superior Court on Jan. 25.

Just before 1:30 p.m. the same day, the Newtown Police Department responded to a one-car roll-over accident on Berkshire Road in the area of Bennett Bridge Road.

The first responders found the driver trapped inside the 2005 Toyota Camry. Multiple Newtown Fire Companies arrived on scene and successfully extricated the driver, who was then taken to Danbury Hospital for evaluation. The Toyota was towed from the scene without further incident, according to police.

The Newtown Police reported the top of a 13-high truck was shorn off when its driver attempted to drive it under a bridge with just 11.5 feet of clearance.

The accident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. on Jan. 6 as the truck was traveling westbound on Botsford Hill Road. Police say the amount of clearance beneath the railroad bridge was indicated on road signs along the route.

There were no injuries reported, and no apparent damage to the bridge, according to police.

Officers cited the driver for operating under the bridge above the clearance height.

Another driver fared somewhat better in their encounter with an immovable object on Jan. 17 around 9:49 a.m. While traveling through the center drive-thru at the Church Hill Road Wells Fargo bank, the operator of a Mitsubishi Outlander Sport drove into a yellow guard pole. The driver was uninjured, the pole was slightly scuffed, according to police.