CHARLESTOWN — A Pottstown woman suffered minor injuries after an Oct. 26, 2013, crash, police said. Lorraine B. Clark, 75, crashed her Toyota Corolla on State Road near Route 29 and Hollow Road, police said.
According to police, Clark lost control of her car for an unknown reason and went off the road. While she was trying to drive back onto Route 29, she lost control for a second time and her car traveled sideways across both the northbound and southbound lanes. Her car hit a guard rail on the west side of the highway, flipped and hit a tree, which then fell on top of the car.
Then a second tree fell on top of the first tree, police said.
Clark was treated for her minor injuries and given a traffic citation, police said.
Theft from Redner’s Market
LOWER POTTSGROVE — Police charged one person after officers were called to the Redner’s Market in the 1300 block of North Charlotte Street on Friday at 1:18 p.m. Amita Paul, 35, of Pottstown, allegedly stole several items from the supermarket but police did not specify exactly what was taken. According to police, Paul was cited for theft and released.
Teen drives car through lawn of religious building
LOWER FREDERICK — Police charged a 17-year-old Trappe boy with trespass by motor vehicle after he drove his car across the lawn of a building on several occasions. According to police, the teen drove a blue 2007 Chevrolet pickup truck through the lawn of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah’s Witnesses more than once between June 18 and Dec. 17 of 2013. Police said the incidents occurred on June 18, Nov. 23, Dec. 2, and Dec. 17.
Anyone who has experienced or seen similar incidents involving the blue truck should call police at 610-287-4434.
Drugs found during traffic stop
WARWICK — An Elverson man was charged with drug possession after police stopped his car on Jan. 4 around 6:10 p.m.
Richard Alexander Menkins, 20, was found with marijuana, and what police are classifying as “several items of drug paraphernalia.”
Officers stopped his car on St. Peter’s Road near School Road, police said.
Charges were filed in Chester County court.
One injured after crash
HONEY BROOK — One woman suffered minor injuries after her Dodge Caravan crashed on Suplee Road near Pleasant View Road on Jan. 3 around 2:15 p.m. Maria A. Hillworth, 32, of Honey Brook, lost control of her car before it slid across the opposite lane of travel and hit a ditch, police said.
She was not wearing her seat belt, according to police.
Hillworth was charged with not driving at a safe speed for road conditions.
Birdsboro woman injured in crash
WARWICK — One woman was injured after her car hit ice and she lost control on Jan. 7 around 12:13 p.m., police said. According to police, Sarah M. Pollock, 21, of Birdsboro, was driving north on Route 345 when her car hit ice and started sliding and spinning down the hill near Pine Swamp Road. The 2007 Saturn Aura stopped facing south in the shoulder of the southbound lanes, police said.
Pollock had minor injuries to her hip and was transported by ambulance to Reading Hospital, police said.
She was wearing her seat belt.
Two vehicle crash injures one
CHARLESTOWN — One person was injured after two SUVs crashed on Route 29 near State Road on Jan. 12, police said.
Craig Weiner, 40, of Phoenixville, was northbound on Route 29 near Pickering Dam Road when his 2008 Toyota Rav-4 went off the side of the road and hit an embankment.
The Toyota then spun back into traffic and hit a 2000 Jeep Cherokee driven by 44-year-old Brew Bens, of Paoli.
Police said both cars came to a stop in the southbound lanes of the highway.
Weiner was not wearing a seat belt but Bens was, according to police. Weiner suffered injuries that were treated by medical personnel.
Weiner was charged with not driving at a safe speed for road conditions.
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