Hit-and-run





GUILDERLAND — A hit-and-run accident outside of the Westmere Fire Department on Monday left four firefighters with damaged vehicles. All of the cars hit were in parking spaces alongside the front of the firehouse on Western Avenue, and all belonged to volunteers working there. No one was injured.

Guilderland Police are looking for a blue Jeep Grand Cherokee Larado, the vehicle they say is responsible for the accident. No description of the driver was given to police when the incident was reported by firefighters working at the firehouse. The damage occurred at 8:22 p.m., on Jan. 23.
"There is heavy front-end and side damage to [the blue Larado], and by the evidence left at the scene, we were able to determine the color and type of vehicle," said Lt. Curtis Cox, of the Guilderland Police Department.

Not much else is known about who was driving or why the accident occurred, because there were no eye witnesses to the actual event.

Out of the four cars hit, two were damaged in the front and the other two were damaged in the rear of the vehicles.
Cox is asking Enterprise readers to "give us a call if they saw anything or know about anything that happened Monday night."

The Guilderland Police can be reached at 356-1501.

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