Crime & Safety
Police Activity: Another Busy Week of Car Crashes
Lower Merion police responded to an unusually high number of vehicular accidents.

police responded to 707 calls for service in the week ending Sunday, Nov. 6, according to a weekly report posted on the township's website.
For the second straight week, 46 of the calls were for vehicular accidents causing property damage. Police also responded to a fatal crash and six others with injuries.
A version of the most recent report, sorted by the type of incident, is attached to this article. In the past week, the police calls (which do not necessarily indicate arrests were made or charges filed) include:
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- 2 burglaries (one on the unit block of Conshohocken State Road Thursday evening)
- 7 cases of criminal mischief to automobiles
- 2 disorderly conduct cases (one on the 100 block of Essex Avenue Wednesday night)
- 2 DUIs (one Saturday night at St. Asaphs Road and Belmont Avenue)
- 1 fatal accident (Wednesday afternoon at Anderson and Station avenues in Ardmore)
- 1 fire
- 4 fraud cases
- 6 vehicular accidents with injuries
- 46 vehicular accidents with property damage
- 8 cases of public drunkenness
- 2 simple assaults
- 1 suicide
- 13 thefts
- 2 stolen vehicles (including one late Thursday morning from the 200 block of Jefferson Street in Belmont Hills)
The department briefs news media about some incidents each Monday afternoon. See the following reports from this Monday's briefing:
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