Police Investigate Rash Of Objects Thrown At Vehicles

By Andrew Gorosko

Town police and state police are investigating a recent string of incidents in which thrown objects have struck moving vehicles.

The objects were thrown both from other moving vehicles and from stationary points.

A local woman was driving westward on Mt Pleasant Road, west of its intersection with Taunton Lake Road, about 8 pm July 1, when a person traveling eastward on Mt Pleasant Road, possibly in a gray Audi, hurled a glass bottle full of liquid at the woman’s vehicle, striking the vehicle’s front end, damaging it. The woman was not injured.

At about 4 pm on June 29, a motorcyclist was traveling westward on Sugar Street, near the Meadowbrook Terrace Mobile Home Park, when someone hurled a plastic soda bottle at him, striking him in the back with the bottle, police said.

The person who threw the bottle at the motorcyclist was spotted moving away from the scene at high speed, leaning out of the right-front passenger window of the gold-colored mid-1980s Honda. The Honda has loud exhaust noise, police said. The incident constitutes second degree reckless endangerment, police said.

Also, a town police car recently was struck in the nighttime by an object that was thrown from a stationary point, damaging the vehicle.

Also, on the night of June 25, someone dropped objects from the Tunnel Road overpass onto passing vehicles below on eastbound Interstate 84, state police said.

The unspecified objects were dropped onto two vehicles driven by two Newtown residents, state police said. There were no injuries.

Police said it is unclear if all the several thrown-object incidents are related. Newtown police ask anyone with information about these cases to contact them at 426-5841.