Fleeing Driver Hurt Crashing Into Utility Pole In New Castle: WCPD

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NY — The Westchester County Police Department often says, "Flee from Us, End Up in Cuffs." That adage proved true once again this week.

Unfortunately, a 23-year-old Mount Vernon man, suspected of stealing an SUV, didn't get the message and he was left much worse off for it.

On Monday night, Gregory Diaz Weather was injured after he sped away from a WCPD officer only to crash on an exit ramp of the Taconic State Parkway, according to officials.

Around 7:30 p.m., the Real Time Crime Center broadcast an alert that a stolen Kia SUV was traveling northbound on the Saw Mill River Parkway. A WCPD officer located the SUV in Hawthorne and attempted to stop the Kia just before the entrance ramp to the northbound Taconic.

Weather refused to pull over and instead fled north on the Taconic, police said. As he attempted to exit at Route 134 in New Castle, he struck a utility pole. Weather had to be extricated from the car and was rushed to Westchester Medical Center by the Ossining Volunteer Ambulance Corps for treatment of a leg injury.

"If the stolen car didn’t have air bags, it would have been worse," police officials noted.

Weather was charged with felony criminal possession of stolen property, misdemeanor unlawful fleeing an officer in a motor vehicle and misdemeanor aggravated unlicensed operation. He was also issued summonses for speeding, unsafe lane change and other traffic violations.