Crime & Safety

Police: Unlicensed Driver Drives Over Port Chester Stop Sign

An unlicensed driver struck a stop sign and kept driving on July 14, according to Port Chester Lt. James Ladeairous.

The driver, a 26-year-old man from Elmsford, allegedly struck a stop sign on North Bond and North Regent Street around 6 p.m., tried to get it out from under his car but then kept driving, police said. 

Police arrested the man after a caller reported they saw a man trying to get a stop sign out from under his vehicle. When police arrived he was gone, but they found him a few blocks away on Putnam Terrace.

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The man told police that he "may have fallen asleep," Ladeairous said. He was not intoxicated but didn’t have a driver’s license, he said. The man was issued a summons for unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle and for leaving the scene of the accident. 


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