Crash Injures Two Teens, Catapults Stone Through Local Apartment
A local resident experienced a dangerous and unwanted intrusion one recent Saturday evening.
Newtown Police report that Jack Racsko, 16, of Oxford, operating a 2015 BMW 335xi, was traveling at a high rate of speed east on Nunnawauk Road at 11:23 pm June 24 when he lost control of the vehicle. The car went off the left side of the roady, struck a rock wall, which caused it to go airborne, and then struck a tree approximately ten feet off the ground before coming to a stop on top of the wall.
When Racsko’s vehicle struck the rock wall, it dislodged several large stones which were launched towards the apartments at Nunnawauk Meadows. One of the stones flew through the air approximately 100 feet, where it struck an exterior wall of a building and entered one of the apartments.
A resident of the apartment was on her bed when the stone traveled through her wall at high speed and struck another interior wall on the other side of the room, according to the Newtown PD report. The stone nearly struck her on its path through the room, the report further noted. The stone caused significant damage to the exterior and interior of the structure as well as destroying personal property of the resident.
Additionally, a wheel and tire from the vehicle traveled approximately 200 feet before striking the exterior wall of another Nunnawauk Meadows building, damaging the exterior of that building.
Racsko told police he had spoken with individuals at the Fairfield Hills campus and told them not to enter the vacant buildings. He said those individuals argued with him and chased him, causing him to flee the scene in his vehicle.
Racsko and a passenger were both transported to Danbury Hospital with minor injuries. The vehicle was totaled.
Hook & Ladder firefighters also responded to the crash.
Racsko was issued a misdemeanor summons for reckless driving.