Hit and run after rear-end crash at traffic light, Putnam CT
TrafficPolice investigated a hit-and-run crash where a vehicle rear-ended another car at a traffic light near West Thompson Road and Woodstock Avenue. The suspect vehicle, with heavy front-end damage, fled toward Woodstock Avenue. Officers searched nearby roads for the vehicle but did not locate it.
Audio|Source: Putnam Police
04:22
Transcript:
00:00
18, hold was the last direction of travel you had?
00:04
Uh,
00:05
passerby I was pointing down Wicker.
00:08
So I checked Wicker and wrecked park road.
00:11
I didn't see anything.
00:14
Roger, I'm on saving now.
00:23
Roger, I took Sabin North.
00:26
Nothing found. I'm coming back.
00:27
I think I'm on the Underwood, on the top side here.
00:35
Did you make it out to Woodstock?
00:38
I went up to Tripp, Tripp Road, coming back.
00:43
Roger, I'll spin around and go the other way.
00:52
Headquarters, can you go to the address of the registry owner again, please?
00:58
Roger, it's gonna be 54, that's 5-4, Laurel Drive Woodstock.
01:10
Headquarters, you want to see if the troop has anybody to head out that way?
01:17
Just place the calls of the troop.
01:20
Okay.
01:27
20 is inquiring your location.
01:35
I'm on Underwood,
01:38
up on the trip roadside.
01:44
Roger 20, you copy.
01:47
All right.
02:00
HQ, do you say Lull, as in Lima, Oscar, Whiskey?
02:08
Negative, Laurel, Lima,
02:11
Alpha, Uniform,
02:13
Romeo, Echo,
02:14
Lima.
02:16
Okay.
02:26
I'm gonna start in that direction from Underwood in case this vehicle is disabled on route.
02:32
All right.
02:44
Hey, did you chip?
02:50
Come in.
02:52
Can you go with the circumstances, what was it the MBA or what happened?
02:58
Roger, it sounds like it was a rear-end job at the light.
03:02
Per of the call of that witness, said the car backed up, went around the vehicle that he hit, and proceeded on Woodstock out toward Kennedy Drive.
03:13
Another passerbyer saw the vehicle approach the light with heavy front-end damage and took her right on to Wicker.
03:23
Roger, what intersection did the MBA occur at?
03:29
It's going to be pulled by Woodstock Ave West and Westompson Road, that traffic light.
03:38
Roger, do we have victim reporting?
03:42
I'm at that intersection now.
03:43
I don't see anything.
03:48
Took several calls on it.
03:50
One of them sounded like the boyfriend of the victim,
03:53
and I believe the victim called, I'll stop making some phones up.
03:59
Roger, yeah, I don't have any vehicle up that intersection with any rear-hand damage.
04:07
Understood.
04:14
Headquarters, I took a ride out 171 up past the fair.
04:17
Did not locate it.
04:21
About it too.
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Location mentioned:
W Thompson Rd & Woodstock Ave, Putnam, CT 06260
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