New Canaan police cited a 14-year-old Stamford girl for evading responsibility and other infraction offenses after she rear-ended a car on Route 106 and then drove away.
Police found out about the collision around 6 p.m. on March 18, when the woman who was rear-ended—a 30-year-old from Stratford—came to headquarters reporting that she’d been hit while waiting to turn left onto the Merritt Parkway northbound at Exit 36 (just opposite the Talmadge Hill train station), according to Sgt. Peter Condos of the New Canaan Police Department.
The victim caught the license plate of the 2002 Acura and described the driver as a “young woman with blonde streaks in her hair,” he said. The teen apparently cracked the bumper on the Stratford woman’s car—a 2012 Toyota Camry—then hastily pulled around her, crossed under the parkway and made a left onto the southbound on-ramp, according to a police report.
With the license plate, police identified the vehicle’s owner in Stamford—who turned out to be the teen’s grandfather, her guardian—and the pair came to New Canaan police headquarters, Condos said. There, the girl was cited for evading responsibility in a motor vehicle accident with injury, following too close and driving without a license.
Police withheld her name because of her age. Her case was referred to the Juvenile Matters Division of state Superior Court.
The Stratford woman complained of neck and back pain following the collision, police said.