Seymour Police Officers Recognized For Car Rescue

Photo: Eugene DriscollSeymour First Selectman Paul Roy recently thanked three town police officers for their help responding to a bad accident on Great Hill Road.

In a letter presented to Chief Michael Metzler, Roy thanks Sgt. Stephen Prajer, Officer John Cronin, and Officer Phoumareth Phouangphiarith for their help at the scene, where a woman drove down a steep embankment and needed to be extricated from her car. 

The officers were among the dozens of emergency responders who helped pull the woman up the steep hill using ropes and a basket. 

The rescue was very difficult work on a hot summer day,” Roy wrote in the letter. 

The officers were among the first to arrive on scene and without regard to their own safety, immediately went down a steep embankment to assist the victim,” Roy wrote. 

Roy also sent letters to the fire department and the Seymour Ambulance Association thanking those crews as well.

The woman’s injuries were life-threatening at first, but Metzler said she is recovering. 

The conversation prompted commissioner James Simpson to ask why Seymour doesn’t have an annual recognition ceremony, like the Ansonia Police Department does.

I mean, I’ll pay for the food,” Simpson joked. I just think it’s something worthy of looking at.”

Metzler said past boards have started looking at the idea, but it fell to the side as the makeup of the boards changed. 

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