Motorist Receives Verbal Warning

For Accident

After investigating a motor vehicle accident in which a sedan drove off Sugar Street and landed in a rain-swollen brook on June 5, police verbally warned the auto’s driver.

Police Patrol Officer Felicia Figol, who investigated the crash, verbally warned motorist Albert Kopf, 81, of 174 Brushy Hill Road for failure to obey a stop sign, police said.

Following an intense thunderstorm, firefighters extricated Mr Kopf and passenger Anne Kopf, 79, of the same address, from the partially submerged sedan, where they were trapped after the auto abruptly went off Sugar Street and entered Country Club Brook, near the police station

Mr Kopf received cuts and Ms Kopf received an ankle injury. Both were transported by ambulance volunteers to Danbury Hospital to be treated for injuries.

The stream normally carries little water, but was running very high at the time due to an intense thunderstorm that had struck the area about a half hour earlier.

Mr Kopf was driving the 2000 Oldsmobile Intrigue northward on Elm Drive about 12:53 pm, when the vehicle continued moving past a stop sign at Elm Drive’s intersection with Sugar Street (Route 302). The Oldsmobile then crossed Sugar Street and struck and knocked over two wooden guardposts. The auto lurched outward across the brook with its rear end landing in about two feet of water.