NEWS
June 30, 1992 | BY ALFRED P. DEGEN
Recently Philadelphia Gas Works, along with neighboring utilities, Philadelphia Electric Company, UGI Corporation, and Delmarva Power, sponsored a two-day Natural Gas Vehicle Symposium to highlight the benefits of natural gas as a vehicular fuel. The symposium was designed primarily for fleet owners and operators who will be required to add cleaner operating vehicles to their fleets under the terms of the Clean Air Act amendments of 1990. Together with the world-wide focus on environmental matters, it is timely to review what PGW is doing to help to develop a market for clean burning natural gas vehicles.
NEWS
July 2, 1992 | By Christine Bahls, INQUIRER CORRESPONDENT
A Doylestown Borough resident woke up Sunday to the noise of escaping air. Looking out his window onto North West Street, he saw someone running from the direction of his Volkswagen Golf - on which three tires had just been slashed. After a closer look at the car, the man saw the word pope scratched into the hood. Six other vehicles were similarly vandalized Sunday. The switchboard at the borough police station lit up as five reports came in about 3:30 a.m. Only one other car had pope scratched into it. The remaining two reports came in later that day. Only one vehicle owner gave police a damage estimate.
NEWS
January 23, 1986 | By Kim Muller, Special to The Inquirer
The Pemberton Borough Council voted unanimously Monday night to table an proposed ordinance that would prohibit abandoned vehicles from being stored on public or private property. At the suggestion of Councilman William Emmons, the council decided that the proposed law was too vague and that there may be special cases in which the abandoned vehicles would not detract from the character of the rural community. "We need to make the ordinance clear so there's no misunderstanding," said Mayor F. Lyman Simpkins.
NEWS
January 25, 1987 | By Marie George, Special to The Inquirer
In an effort to prevent old cars from becoming eyesores, the Hi-Nella Borough Council has approved restrictions on the length of time residents may store dismantled vehicles on their property. The ordinance, approved unanimously by the six-member council Tuesday, prohibits residents from storing an unregistered or partly dismantled vehicle anywhere on their property for more than three days. Outside parking of more than three such vehicles for more than seven days is banned. The ordinance, which was introduced Dec. 16, also makes it illegal to store such vehicles within 30 feet of municipal streets or county roads.
NEWS
February 11, 1988 | By Bill Price, Inquirer Staff Writer
When a new 1988 Ford Bronco was discovered in a shopping center parking lot last week, the people who run Sheehy Ford thought it might be a good idea to take inventory to see if any other cars belonging to them were missing. In so doing, the dealership made another, far more remarkable discovery. Fourteen new and used vehicles, estimated to be worth at least $182,000, had been stolen from the lot of the dealership, at Roosevelt Boulevard north of Welsh Road. "Until (the inventory)
NEWS
March 29, 2012 | Staff Report
About two dozen passenger vehicles were damaged this morning by vandals who slashed tires, doused cars with a corrosive chemical and dumped sugar in gas tanks in the Overbrook section, police said. Capt. Melvin Singleton, commander of the 19th Police District, said tires were slashed on 17 cars and the paint on seven other passengers vehicles had been stripped away by an acid-like substance. Some cars also had sugar in the gas tanks, he said. A Fire Department Hazmat Unit was called to the scene to scrape off some of the corrosive chemical for testing.
NEWS
January 10, 1990 | By Robert McSherry, Special to the Inquirer
Two people were hurt and seven vehicles damaged yesterday in two accidents on a Delaware County bridge that were caused by icy roads and that backed up morning rush-hour traffic on Interstate 95 for about five miles, police said. Tinicum Township police said the accidents happened about 7:10 a.m. in the four northbound lanes of I-95 when a van driven by Bobby Andrews, 28, of the 2400 block of Bowers Street, Wilmington, spun out of control on the ice- slickened Bartram Avenue overpass.
NEWS
October 27, 2010 | By JAN RANSOM, ransomj@phillynews.com 215-854-5218
Grief-stricken residents in Whitman Park were already coping with the loss of a slain neighbor when many of them awoke yesterday, the day of Anthony DeMarco's funeral, to find that their cars had been vandalized. Fifty-six vehicles on Jackson and Wolf streets between 2nd and 3rd in the South Philadelphia neighborhood were doused with a chemical, possibly acetone or paint thinner, police said. Police spokesman Lt. Ray Evers said the vandalism occurred at 2:50 a.m. and appeared to be a random act not related to Friday's homicide.
NEWS
February 27, 2012
Crews on Sunday cleared stranded vehicles from a nine-mile stretch of Interstate 80 in Northwestern Pennsylvania a day after whiteout conditions led to chain-reaction crashes involving 50 or more vehicles. Three people killed in the crashes were identified as Michael Maluk, 70, of Greenville, Mercer County, and a married couple, Robert and Rita Duffy, of the Pittsburgh suburb of West View, Venango County Deputy Coroner Chris Hile said. - AP
NEWS
April 21, 1999 | By Herbert Lowe, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The tow-truck drivers found one of the cars they'd been sent after, a 1986 Mazda 323 with an expired tag and a phony inspection sticker. It was wedged between two Chevys. No problem. The men hooked a chain around the Mazda's frame and pulled the car away from the curb. The work backed up traffic in the 5200 block of Duffield Street in Frankford, but the Philadelphia Police Department wanted the car towed. The Mazda was one of 210 abandoned, unsafe or illegally parked vehicles that had been ticketed for removal last Wednesday and Thursday in the 15th Police District.