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Amherst · Wehrle Drive

White SUV Slams Into M&T Bank ATM on Wehrle

“A vehicle struck an ATM” — and an attempt-to-locate went out minutes later for a red Nissan Rogue with heavy passenger-side damage

Amherst PD took an odd complaint at 12:37 p.m. — a car had struck the ATM at the 1100 Wehrle Drive[*] branch of M&T Bank, and dispatch described the striking vehicle only as a white SUV. The M&T on Wehrle sits in a stretch of banks and drive-throughs where drivers routinely thread the ATM lane too tight against the curb. What made the call unusual was the description mismatch that followed.

Fifteen minutes later, at 12:53, Amherst PD put out an attempt-to-locate for a red Nissan Rogue, New York plate Mary-Adam-George-9666, driver described as a Black male in his fifties, with “heavy passenger-side damage towards the Boulevard.” Whether the red Rogue was the same vehicle as the earlier white SUV — or a second, unrelated crash working its way through the same channel — the transcript does not resolve.

Around the NeighborhoodThe Northtowns, call by call

Amherst · Kids Home Alone

RESOLVED

Dad’s 911 About Three Children Home Alone Ends With A Small Child On Its Way To Suburban

At 12:03 p.m., an Amherst PD dispatcher relayed an unsettling complaint on the Amherst-Clarence trunk: “Dad's a complainant. Not on location reports. The 2-year-old, 7-year-old and 9-year-old are home alone”. Officers were dispatched immediately, and the trunk went busy with overlapping traffic — East Amherst Fire had an EMS run into Wegmans at 8270 Transit Road at almost the same minute, and a separate PD complaint about a driver going northbound in the southbound lanes rolled in seconds later.

By 12:22 the situation had reshaped itself: an officer on scene reported “a two-year-old on location,” dispatch was working the phones to reach family, and by 12:25 the dispatcher noted they had “made contact with family members to be able to talk.” At 12:26 Amherst Fire coded a single patient to Millard Fillmore Suburban on Goodrich Road; at 12:28 Twin City confirmed the transport: “One small child with Amherst Police.”

Amherst · Niagara Falls Boulevard

RESOLVED

Injury MVA in the Middle of the Boulevard Near Irvington

Amherst PD called out an injury accident at 2695 Niagara Falls Boulevard[*], between Irwin and Irvington, at 1:17 p.m. — the vehicles coming to rest in the middle of the road. Ellicott Creek 1 responded and Commerce 239 handled the ambulance, per Amherst Fire Dispatch.

The dispatcher on scene relayed a 68-year-old female with minor leg injuries needing an evaluation and a second party “complaining of neck pain level.” No extrication requests came over the air, and by 1:37 units were letting arriving cars “slow it down — appears to be no injuries” beyond the two already handed to medical. The road stayed open in both directions.

Getzville · North Forest

RESOLVED

Getzville MVA on North Forest Turns Into A Walk-In EMS

Amherst Fire Dispatch paged a report of a motor vehicle accident on North Forest Road[*] at 11:41 a.m., and by 11:44 Getzville 9 was responding with Command 6 en route. Dispatchers pinned the scene at a cross with Maple Road[*] — the intersection the incident commander wanted kept open.

The scene settled fast. The commander on scene told units to stage, keep the intersection open, and “walk your crew down with an EMS bag” — the kind of tactical downshift that means no extrication, no fluids, no fire. Twin City signed and released with Amherst Fire at 11:50; all Getzville units cleared to Channel 2 for operations.

Amherst · North French Road

RESOLVED

Manager Calls PD Over Yelling And Thrown Objects At A North French Apartment

A complex manager on North French Road[*] [heard: French Road] phoned Amherst PD at 1:48 p.m. after someone reported “yelling coming from the apartment and things being thrown around”. Two females were said to be inside; the call was booked as a disturbance and dispatched to Apartment 4.

Amherst dispatch pulled a history flag as the units were rolling: an adult subject on file at the address, tagged as schizophrenic and “stopped taking his medication” per the caller, described by dispatch as “very irate and aggressive.” The check was closed on scene without a transport tone within the window.


Overheard: The WiresCops, cabbies, custodians, dispatchers — off-script

BuffaloLimo · Passenger Diagnostics

‘Four Toes Left’ — A BuffaloLimo Driver’s Radio Postmortem

The most memorable transmission of the eight-hour window was volunteered without prompting into the BuffaloLimo dispatch trunk at 10:02 a.m., describing what appears to be a fare not proceeding as planned: “He had his shoes off because he had four toes left. He couldn't figure it out”. Dispatch offered no follow-up. The passenger, and the toes, went into the void.

Amherst Water · Curbside Complaint

A Woman Crosses The Street To Tell Amherst Water Her Manhole Smells

An Amherst Water lineman radioed base at 10:36 a.m. with a fully unsolicited curbside report: “The lady approached me from across the street at 3:20. She says her manhole smells. I still couldn't do it smelling”. He was, by his own admission, unable to detect the smell himself and indicated he would circle back with a longer look. Public works, live and unedited.

Amherst PD · A Man At His Own Door

‘He’s Outside, Out Front, But He’s Extremely Confused And Doesn’t Recognize The House’

An Amherst officer at 8:22 a.m., taking stock of the situation on scene, relayed a description that will land with anyone who has ever aged, or watched someone age: “He's outside, out front, but he's extremely confused and doesn't recognize the house”. The officer's next question was whether Twin City should roll for an evaluation. The call cleared on-scene without a transport tone in the window.

Amherst PD · Roma Cuisine

A Customer Calls Amherst PD Because Roma Cuisine’s Doors Are Open And The Lights Are Off

At the top of the 1 o'clock hour, an Amherst PD unit was dispatched to a welfare check at Roma Cuisine, 964 Maple Road[*]. The complainant was a customer, and the reason for the concern was operational: “the business doors are open. There's no employees on site and the lights are off”. The lot was quiet enough for the customer to notice. Something about the anxiety of an empty restaurant with an open door — the reversed order of a lunchtime — was worth a call.

Amherst PD · Quartino’s

The Suspicious $50: Woman Returns To Her Car At Quartino’s, Finds A Bill On It

Amherst PD took a call at 1:42 p.m. as a “suspicious occurrence” at Quartino's, 5640 Main Street[*]: a woman had come out to her vehicle and found a $50 bill on it. Dispatch sent an officer to meet the complainant out front. It is not, in this county, a crime to leave money on someone's car — but it is unusual enough to be a story.

Orchard Park · PetSmart

A Pet Groomer, In And Out Of Consciousness, At The Orchard Park PetSmart

OPFD Dispatch at 2:12 p.m., unglamorously: 3425 Amelia at the PetSmart, “for a groomer in and out of consciousness with a possible head injury”. Ambulance 882 available. The groomer's animal is not on the record. The window closed with the response still in progress.


Regional BlotterBeyond the Northtowns — WNY at large

Lancaster · Live Wires Down

ONGOING

Live Wires Down And Possibly On Fire On Genesee Street

Lancaster Fire Control paged out at 2:00 p.m. for live wires down and possibly on fire in front of a business at 5799 Genesee Street[*]. Lancaster Fire Dispatch cleared the initial page and the incident was still on the trunk when the PM window closed. National Grid coordination was not audible on the scanner traffic within the window.

Hamburg · Gas Leak

RESOLVED

Struck Gas Meter Leaks At Hamburg Mobile Home Park

T-Hamburg Fire Dispatch toned Lakeshore at 10:50 a.m. for a struck gas meter leaking gas at 5455 Southwestern Boulevard — a Hamburg mobile home park, lot 33. Lakeshore 9-1 was en route with a full-time crew within minutes; no evacuation tones went over the air, and the scene closed off the main dispatch trunk shortly after.

Cheektowaga · Welfare Check

RESOLVED

Wandering Kids, Parents Asleep After Long Shifts

A Cheektowaga PD unit closed out a welfare check at 10:30 a.m. with a summary that speaks to the schedule of shift work in the suburbs: “children returned home safely before arrival, male child has autism, parents were both work long hours, we're asleep at this time”.

The officer's disposition, per dispatch, was to file a DIR for information and to route a referral to Adult Protective Services rather than to charge — the parents were “advised there will be no charges at this time. I'll be doing a DIR for info. ACPS referral”.

Other Calls of Note

[07:45]Lockport · 5833 Snyder Drive Fire Control paged a smoke-alarm activation on the second floor of the YMCA at 5833 Snyder Drive; incident on FD-10-1, cleared at 7:45.
[08:52]Niagara County · Ambleside & Keswick MVA at Ambleside Drive and Keswick Drive with a female possibly laying in the roadway; ALS already recommended, County EMS responding.
[07:57]Amherst · 8945 Main Street Harris Hill EMS to a 40-year-old male reported unconscious at 8945 Main Street; Twin City transported.
[12:51]Amherst · 3120 NF Blvd Ellicott Creek EMS to a 47-year-old female at the McDonald's, 3120 Niagara Falls Boulevard, between Wehrle Drive and Eggert Road.
[12:05]Williamsville · 5330 Main Street Newstead-Williamsville EMS to a 70-year-old female who fell with a head injury at 5330 Main Street, between South Union Road and South Long Street.
[12:06]East Amherst · Bryant Woods S East Amherst EMS to a 60-year-old female who fell with a head injury at 85 Bryant Woods South, between John James Audubon Parkway and Bryant Woods North.
[11:16]Akron · Whiting Door Manufacturing Akron EMS to a 26-year-old male at Whiting Door Manufacturing, 113 Cedar Street, between Lewis Road and the village line.
[08:45]East Amherst · 6363 Transit Road East Amherst EMS to a female who fell with a head injury at 6363 Transit Road, between Woodbridge Lane and Old Post Road West.

Editor’s Note

An eight-hour Monday window brought steady work to Amherst dispatch. A car struck the M&T Bank ATM at 1100 Wehrle Drive around lunch; a father's frantic call about three young children home alone reshaped itself into Twin City transporting a small child to Millard Fillmore Suburban with Amherst PD alongside; a Getzville MVA at Maple and North Forest quieted down into a walk-in EMS with no extrication; and an injury MVA on Niagara Falls Boulevard just past 1 p.m. cleared with everyone up and walking. The Overheard was the day's real gift — a BuffaloLimo driver puzzling over a passenger who “had four toes left,” and a woman who walked across the street just to alert an Amherst Water crew that her manhole smells.

Daily Gem

He had his shoes off because he had four toes left. He couldn't figure it out”

— BuffaloLimo dispatch, 10:02 a.m.

By the Numbers

Segments
997
Active systems
25
Busiest hour
12:00–13:00 (Amherst — M&T Bank ATM strike, kids-home-alone call, Wegmans EMS, dual head-injury runs)
Regional Breaking
0
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Police425
Fire / EMS305
Hotel / shuttle / taxi130
Airport / aviation65
Schools51
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Williamsville & Amherst440
Other Erie County130
Buffalo110
Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew100
Niagara County60

Agency and area buckets are estimated from ProScan channel labels and inferred speaker context; some rideshare/shuttle channels ride mixed trunks and were bucketed by inferred role.

[*] = a name the scanner audio left uncertain and could not be confirmed against an official source; treat as unverified. Routine street-name fixes against official municipal lists are applied silently.
The WNY Listening Post · Monday, July 27, 2026 · P.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 79
Compiled from public radio scanner traffic via the WNY Listening Post automated pipeline. Transcriptions are AI-generated and may contain errors; verify names and details before action.
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