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Sheriff's office says non-injury collisions often go unrecorded; county law limits town's enforcement
Summary
A committee member gave a crash location; the sheriff's office representative said non-injury collisions are documented only when parties request reports and that state law, not local policy, governs mandatory reporting, limiting the town's ability to require comprehensive collision logs.
Ed Holland opened a discussion after a resident supplied an address for a recent crash and asked whether the town could track all collisions. Christie gave the location as 4139 Alpine Road and asked the sheriff's office to record all accidents so the town could monitor trends.
A sheriff's office representative, identified in the meeting as Nick, told the committee that compiling a comprehensive list of collisions without a specific date would be difficult. "It'd be extremely hard without a specific date," he said, explaining that many low‑severity,…
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