Streetlight Falls at Red Plum In Mamaroneck, Stop Sign Run Down in Hartsdale

Around 2 pm on Saturday, when the SOWE Music Festival brought many to town, a van hit a lamppost on the sidewalk and knocked it over onto a table at the Red Plum Restaurant where many were sitting outside enjoying lunch. Fortunately, that one table was unoccupied and no one was hurt, but the accident did cause pandemonium on the sidewalk.

Following the accident, emergency vehicles were dispatched to clean up the mess.

Stop Sign Run Down in Greenacres

A Greenacres resident who took an early morning walk on Saturday 9-19 at 6:50 am reported that he found a Stop sign knocked over at the top of Exit 16 of the southbound Bronx River Parkway, near the Hartsdale Train Station. This must have happened sometime after 7PM on Friday night when the man walked home from the station and remembers that the sign was standing.

Looking closely at the marks on the pavement, he assumed that the driver of the vehicle was either under the influence, fell asleep at the wheel or was driving so fast that he or she lost control of the vehicle, climbed the curb while turning and knocked the sign over. From the tire marks, he could not tell what kind of car or truck was involved.

The Stop sign is at least two feet from the start of the sidewalk and it looked like the rear wheels of the vehicle also climbed the curb, which is more than six inches high at this point.

The vehicle may have landed with a thud when it finally fell off the curb and back onto the road because the curb was about a foot high at the point the vehicle wheels re-entered the road.

Since the Stop sign is mounted on steel and looks quite strong there must have been a considerable impact.