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Elderly Driver Hits
SCSU Pedestrian

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An 18-year-old girl told police she was in the crosswalk when she was hit by a car on Farnham Avenue on Tuesday night. The 83-year-old woman who hit her told cops the teen wasn’t using the crosswalk.

The teen was treated and discharged from Yale-New Haven Hospital on Tuesday night.

Here’s what happened, according to a police report prepared by New Haven cop Officer Matthew Myers:

Just past 6 p.m., the driver of a 1999 Oldsmobile Intrigue struck a pedestrian on Farnham Avenue near the corner of Wintergreen Avenue, on the Southern Connecticut State University campus. The driver told police she had been driving at a slow rate of speed” and didn’t see the 18-year-old pedestrian as she walked in front of the car. The driver added that the teen wasn’t in the crosswalk.

The pedestrian, however, told cops that the driver failed to stop as she was crossing the street — within the crosswalk.

Several witnesses were unable to corroborate either story, the report states.

The driver was not found to be at fault.

Police Probe 2 Shootings

In other police news, according to police spokesman Officer Joe Avery:

An 18-year-old was shot near the corner of Grand Avenue and Poplar Street in Fair Haven at 10:56 p.m. on Tuesday. The victim was hit twice in his torso and once in his ankle. His injuries were non-life-threatening. He told police he’d been shot during a street robbery.

Less than half an hour later, at 11:20 p.m. police responded to another shooting, at George Street and Winthrop Avenue in the West River neighborhood. They found a 21-year-old man with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound to the right shoulder. He told cops that he and his brother were walking on Winthrop when a man fired three shots at them from a burgundy van with tinted windows. The victim was take to Yale-New Haven Hospital for treatment.

Cops: 3 Stores Sold Booze To Minors

State liquor control announced on Wednesday that three New Haven stores are being cited for selling alcohol to minors. The charges stem from an undercover operation on Saturday. Three youth volunteers” working with New Haven police and state liquor control tried to buy booze in 64 grocery and package stores in New Haven. Only three stores failed the test.

They are, according to the state:

Shop Smart, 284 Putnam Street, New Haven
Country Market, 13 Shelton Avenue, New Haven
Newhall Package Store, 332 Newhall Street, New Haven

The stores will have an opportunity to respond to the charges in an administrative hearing.

Given the number of stores tested, these are very good results,” Consumer Protection Commissioner Jerry Farrell said in a press release. I congratulate New Haven and thank its local permittees for their vigilance in observing the law. Please keep up the good work.”

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