Man From Climax, New York Allegedly Drove Drunk, Crashed Into Cop Cars
Police say a man from the upper Hudson Valley crashed his truck into law enforcement vehicles the night of February 12. According to BNN Breaking, the impact from the crash was so severe it rendered the vehicles "inoperable".
However, sources say the suspect was quite a ways from his home town the night of the incident.
Greene County Man Allegedly Crashed Truck Into Police Vehicles
BNN reports that a 59-year-old man from the hamlet of Climax, New York was allegedly intoxicated when he crashed his pickup truck into two parked Nassau County Police vehicles late Monday night. Officials say no one was in the parked police vehicles at the time of the crash.
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LongIsland.com says the crash happened in Valley Stream, Long Island. The parked vehicles were empty at the time, as authorities were answering an unrelated call, says LongIsland.com.
According to Wikipedia, Climax is a hamlet in the town of Coxsackie, located in Greene County, New York. According to Places.US.com, Climax has an estimated population of around 271 people.
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So according to the folks at FanMaps, this is what they've picked:
Butternuts.
That's the name of the town located in Otsego County in the central part of the state.
According to the 2010 census, Butternuts has 1,786 residents and borders the Unadilla River. According to Wikipedia, the name is believed to have come from three butternut trees growing from one stump that originally marked the corner of the townships of what is now New Lisbon, Pittsfield, and Morris.
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