Two-Car Crash Snarls Hutchinson at Rush Hour

Scarsdale firefighters respond to a two-vehicle accident on the northbound side of the Hutchinson River Parkway Wednesday afternoon in the thick of rush hour. 

The rear-ending occured just south of exit 23S in Mamaroneck, shortly after 6 p.m.

"One person had minor injuries," said Captain Jeff Gaskin of the Scarsdale Fire Department. "One car was rear-ended by another car."

Gaskin was the duty officer on shift when the call came in, and he said the initial reports were of a car fire taking place.

"A passerby had used an extinguisher on the fire, so there was no fire when we arrived," he said. "There was a fluid spill on the roadway and we stood by waiting for removal to arrive."

"It was a relatively minor two-vehicle accident," he said. When asked why the damage to one vehicle looked so rough in photographs, he stipulated, "That's just the nature of the accident. I'm no accident scene investigator, but I do not think speed was a factor."

Traffic jams stretched for miles in both directions.