This morning at 9:21 a.m., a pickup truck slammed into a tractor-trailer that was stopped in the breakdown lane on the eastbound side of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Grafton, causing a six-mile backup. The operator of the Toyota Tundra Pickup truck was airlifted from the accident to a nearby hospital.…
On Sunday morning, a single-car accident on Route 1 in Peabody killed an Amesbury man. The 21-year-old passenger was not wearing a seat belt and was ejected from a 2005 Saturn Ion when the driver, a 22-year-old from Sanford, Maine, lost control of the vehicle. The Saturn rolled over several…
In addition to the recent text-messaging ban for drivers, Massachusetts may soon institute other changes to the road. “Open-road” tolling is one of those changes, and Governor Deval Patrick says highway officials will begin testing it soon. According to Patrick, the tests will be staged in lanes at the Massachusetts…
On Monday afternoon, a minivan rollover sent the 27-year-old driver to Massachusetts General Hospital with head and other injuries. She was flown by medical helicopter after the motor vehicle accident occurred on Interstate 95 in Foxboro near the Sharon border. The minivan reportedly rolled over into the median after the…
Earlier this week, several Massachusetts state troopers were injured in unrelated car crashes. On Sunday evening, Trooper Patrick McGowan was injured in a Wrentham car crash involving a 2004 Acura. He was treated and released at Norwood Hospital. One of the passengers in the Acura was also injured in the…
On Tuesday, Massachusetts drivers on I-495 in Mansfield watched as a single-engine plane made an emergency landing on the interstate. The emergency landing happened near Route 140 near the Mansfield airport. According to a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, the pilot called Norwood Memorial Airport and told them he would have…
On Monday morning around 9:17am, a four-vehicle accident in Newburyport, Massachusetts forced the closure of Interstate 95 in both directions for several hours due to a gas spill. The https://www.altmanllp.com/lawyer-attorney-1226003.htmltraffic accident involved a Honda Odyssey, a Toyota Corolla, a Ford Expedition, and a Freightliner gasoline tanker, which was carrying over…
On Sunday morning, snow piling up on the highway forced traffic into a single lane. An estimated 59 vehicles, including 46 cars, eight lightweight trucks, three buses, and two tractor trailer trucks, collided on Interstate 93 in Derry, New Hampshire, but fortunately no one was killed. Of the one hundred…
The Boston Globe reports that on Christmas eve morning, weather conditions throughout Massachusetts made for a slippery commute as several drivers lost control of their vehicles. A state police spokesman said there were numerous car accidents reported between 7:30am and 9:30am. In Shrewsbury, one driver died on Interstate 290 after…
According to Massachusetts state police, a man drove off Route 128 northbound and rolled over around 4pm on Tuesday afternoon. Several people called to alert state police that a 1993 Mercury Cougar had gone into the woods and rolled over. State and Manchester police responded to the car accident. A…