School Bus Strikes Train Overpass: Garden City Police

The Garden City Police Department reported the following incidents for the week ending Oct. 23.

• A car was stopped on Cathedral Avenue on Oct. 16 for traveling 51 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. Upon investigation, the driver, a 38-year-old man from Freeport, was charged with driving with a suspended registration and excessive speed.
• Officers responded to Chestnut Street, where a mini school bus struck the train overpass on Oct. 16. The driver, a 70-year-old woman from Queens, was charged with disregarding bridge clearance signs. There were no other occupants in the bus.
• Due to strong winds and heavy rains on Oct. 17, police officers and firefighters responded to numerous calls including tree limbs down, property damage reports, auto accidents, debris in the roadway, traffic light malfunctions, a railroad gate malfunction and fallen power lines.
• Officers responded to Adelphi University on Oct. 18 to investigate a report of a vehicle leaving the scene after striking and damaging an unoccupied vehicle.
• A pedestrian safety detail was conducted on 7th Street on Oct. 18. One ticket was issued to a driver for failing to yield to a pedestrian in the crosswalk and three tickets were issued to drivers for illegal U-turns.
• A traffic investigation on Willow Street and Prospect Avenue on Oct. 19 resulted in the arrest of a 29-year-old man from Hempstead for driving with 13 license suspensions, including a DWI conviction, and unsafe turn.
• Officers responded to Old Country Road for a fallen traffic signal light on Oct. 19.
• Officers responded to a Newmarket Road home on Oct. 19 for disorderly youths with alcohol. Upon investigation, three minors were cited for possession of alcohol and the homeowner was charged with violating the village’s social host law.
• An elderly resident reported he received a phone call on Oct. 10 from a person who stated he was his grandson and claimed he was in an accident and was arrested. Another person then spoke on the phone claiming to be the grandson’s lawyer. He gave the resident instructions to get bail for his grandson. The victim went to the bank, retrieved the money and gave it to a subject who responded to his residence. This was later determined to be a scam.
• As a result of a traffic investigation on Cathedral Avenue on Oct. 21, a 32-year-old man from Uniondale was charged with driving with two driver license suspensions and excessive speed.
• A resident reported on Oct. 21 that a check placed in the mail was intercepted, altered and rewritten to another person.
• Four windows to Cluett Hall were found damaged on Oct. 21.
• Upon investigation on Oct. 22, officers arrested a 24-year-old man from Brooklyn on Warton Place for driving with nine driver license suspensions, tinted windows and no front plate.
• Officers investigated a two-car crash on Nassau Boulevard on Oct. 22, resulting in the arrest of one of the drivers, a 60-year-old man from Franklin Square, for Aggravated DWI (.25 percent BAC). No injuries were reported.