Crime & Safety
Police Activity: Car Crashes Increase in Lower Merion
Officers responded to 46 accidents with property damage in the past week.
Calls for police response ticked up in the week leading up to Halloween, particularly for traffic accidents with property damage, department records show.
According to a weekly report posted on the township's website, the department received 768 calls for service from Oct. 24 through Oct. 30, after weeks of, , , and incidents.
Forty-six of the calls were for vehicular accidents causing property damage, after 32 the previous week.
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A version of the most recent report, sorted by the type of incident, is attached to this article. In the past week, the police calls (which do not necessarily indicate arrests were made or charges filed) include:
- 1 assault
- 1 attempted suicide
- 3 burglaries
- 8 disorderly conduct cases
- 2 DUIs
- 1 fatal accident
- 9 fires
- 4 fraud cases
- 6 vehicular accidents with injuries
- 46 vehicular accidents with property damage
- 13 thefts
The department briefs news media about some incidents each Monday afternoon. See the following reports from this Monday's briefing:
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