Motorist Charged In

Toddy Hill Road Crash

Police have lodged two serious charges against the driver of an auto who was involved in a major accident in February on Toddy Hill Road.

On April 21, police charged Konstantin V. Pakhomov, 18, of Stamford on a court warrant with first degree reckless endangerment and with reckless driving in connection the nighttime accident on Toddy Hill Road at Still Hill Road.

After processing the case, police released Pakhomov on a written promise to appear to answer the charges on May 5 in Danbury Superior Court.

In the accident, Botsford firefighters worked for an hour to extricate a front-seat teenage passenger from a destroyed a two-door 2000 Ford Mustang, which had collided with a utility pole.

Pakhomov, who was driving the Ford southward on Toddy Hill Road, entered the northbound lane and passed two southbound vehicles in a no-passing area, police have said. As the Ford was reentering the southbound lane after passing the two autos, it went out of control and rotated 180 degrees, slid off the northbound lane, and then collided with a utility pole, striking the pole with the passenger door of the car.

Pakhomov and rear-seat passenger Thomas Yacko, 17, of 22 Hyvue Drive, were able to get out of the auto, police have said.

Teenage front-seat passenger Andrew Cabral of 168 Huntingtown Road, however, was trapped inside the vehicle, requiring an hour of extrication work to free him from the wreckage.