Scarsdale Cops: Hazmat on Post Road; Blank Checks Swiped

A hazmat spill on Post Road in Scarsdale last week temporarily shuttered the thoroughfare and mobilized the local fire department, police said.

A fuel oil truck began leaking Wednesday, April 3, spilling its liquid cargo at the Post Road-Evon Court intersection at about 10:30 a.m.

The truck driver, a 39-year-old New Jersey man, told cops that the tanker's comportment system failed, leading to the oil "pouring off the truck," police said.

Scarsdale fire authorities—along with Westchester County's hazmat team, and Department of Health officials—were called to the scene, where a second tanker arrived and had 800 gallons of fuel transferred into it while the road was cleaned.

Police told Patch the faulty truck was street-legal, and had recently passed a New York State Department of Transportation inspection

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A Bell Road resident had a stack of blank checks pilfered from her car recently, police said.

The 35-year-old woman told Scarsdale cops she noticed on Thursday of last week that her purse was missing from her car. She had left the vehicle unlocked and parked in front of her house, police said.

Inside her bag was a pad of blank checks, cops said, but there have been no identify theft issues since. Police are treating the incident as petty larceny, a misdemeanor.