Ice Cream Truck Driver Ticketed for Reckless Driving

A 62-year-old Ypsilanti man driving an ice cream truck was ticketed for reckless driving on July 26 after trying to run two Canton women off the road near Denton and Mott Roads, according to a police report. 

The two women followed the driver and stayed on the phone with Canton Police Dispatch and police were able to locate the truck, the report said. 

Police said the man had a hard time understanding the officer and spoke in broken English. The officer could only decipher that the man honked the horn, and that he was agitated, according to the report.

The two women told police the man honked his horn at them while behind them at a stop sign at Ridge and Clark Roads in Washtenaw County. They said he cut them off as he drove around them, then they both traveled east on Mott Road, the report said.

The woman driving her car said the man stopped in front of Wagon Wheel Trailer Park, so the she pulled her car between the truck and the ditch to speak with him. She told police that the man tried to run them into the ditch by jerking the steering wheel left as they were traveling approximately 10 miles per hour, according to the report.

The woman followed the man as he sped away going about 50 to 50 miles per hour while the passenger called Canton Police, the report said.

The woman also told police a rock kicked up as the man sped away, cracking her windshield, the report said.

Police spoke to the man's son on the phone and advised him to explain the ticket to his father and the son said he would, according to the report.