Police ID, Arrest Driver Accused Of Killing Pedestrian

UPDATE 2:10 p.m. — An Elmsford 26-year-old was charged with driving while intoxicated in connection with Saturday’s fatal pedestrian accident across from the Westchester County Center in White Plains.

Glen Robinson of Saw Mill River Road was taken into custody by Westchester County police at the accident scene. He was treated for minor injuries at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla and booked on the DWI charge at county police headquarters following his discharge from the hospital yesterday, police said.

The crash occurred at 6:39 a.m. Aug. 24 when Robinson’s 2016 Chevrolet Cruze, traveling westbound on Route 119, left the roadway at the intersection of Central Avenue and drove onto a center median/pedestrian area opposite the County Center, police allege. A woman standing there was struck by the vehicle. The vehicle then struck a clock tower/electronic message board, knocking it down.

The victim was transported by ambulance to White Plains Hospital, where she died of her injuries.

She is identified as Susan Benjamin-Bailey, 57, of East 230th Street in the Bronx. She had taken the train to White Plains and was walking to her job in the area when she was killed, police said.

Westchester County Police were assisted by the White Plains Police Department, White Plains Fire Department and Empress Ambulance.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — A pedestrian was struck and killed by a car Saturday in White Plains. The 50-year-old woman from the Bronx was standing near the traffic circle by the Westchester County Center around 6:40 a.m. when the incident occurred.

The driver, who was not identified, was a 26-year-old Westchester man and, police said, he is expected to be charged with drunken driving, the Journal News reported.

Authorities said the car was headed north on Central Avenue and also struck the clock tower across from the county center.

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