Week of October 23, 2015

Newtown Bee staff photos taken for the October 23, 2015, print edition of the paper.

As a southbound motorist approaches a newly built speed table on Queen Street, just south of Grand Place, town highway department staffers Ron Nicholson, left, and Harry Leddy, center, are seen applying some traffic paint to the road to heighten the visibility of the traffic-calming device, which is intended to hold down travel speeds. (Gorosko photo)

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As a southbound motorist approaches a newly built speed table on Queen Street, just south of Grand Place, town highway department staffers Ron Nicholson, left, and Harry Leddy, center, are seen applying some traffic paint to the road to heighten the visibility of the traffic-calming device, which is intended to hold down travel speeds. (Gorosko photo)

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$Police report that a chain-reaction accident involving three commercial vehicles occurred about 1:50 pm on October 15 on Washington Avenue just south of its intersection with Riverside Road, Glen Road, and Church Hill Road. Police said that that trucker Thomas Kapustynski, 61, of Ansonia, who was driving a 2016 Hino box truck (far right), was waiting at a red traffic signal. Terrence Richardson, 44, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who was driving a 2012 Ford van (center), was waiting behind the Hino, police said. William DeJesus, 38, of South Windsor, who was driving a 2011 Chevrolet van (foreground), then struck the rear end of the Ford, pushing the Ford into the rear end of the Hino, police said. Newtown Volunteer Ambulance Corps evaluated DeJesus at the scene, police said. Sandy Hook volunteer firefighters responded to the accident. Police said they issued DeJesus an infraction for failure to drive a reasonable distance apart. (Hicks photo)$

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