Driver Identified In Wrong-Way Hutch Crash

SCARSDALE, NY — Westchester County Police identified Monday the driver of the wrong-way crash that occurred over the weekend. Damita Mathis, 56, of Beacon Falls, CT was killed in the collision that happened around 4:35 a.m. in Scarsdale, north of the parkway’s Weaver Street exit. The multi-vehicle incident occurred after Mathis drove her 2014 Kia Sorento southbound in the northbound lanes of travel.

Mathis had a passenger in her vehicle, Uvette Frasier, 45, of West Haven, CT who was critically injured in the crash and remains hospitalized at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla. (For more information on this and other neighborhood stories, subscribe to Patch to receive daily newsletters and breaking news alerts.)

Two other vehicles were involved in the collision, a 2008 Land Rover driven by Mahendra Danrajh, 29, of Waterbury, CT, and a 2012 Mercedes sedan driven by Michayl Velikov, 55, of Middle Village, Queens.

Danrajh was seriously injured and was taken to Westchester Medical Center. Velikov declined medical attention at the scene.

A county police Accident Investigation team continues to reconstruct the crash to determine the specific sequence of events during the crash.

It remains unknown where Mathis entered the parkway going the wrong way and whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident. Toxicology tests on the Connecticut resident will be conducted by the Westchester County Medical Examiner’s Office as part of the investigation, police said.

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