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Three teenagers sustained injuries when the SUV they were traveling in collided with a tractor-trailer. The accident occurred on Boston Road in Sutton at approximately 1 p.m. on Thursday.

The Dodge SUV, which was being operated by an 18-year-old Sutton resident, crossed the center line on Boston Road and crashed into a Coca-Cola truck.

Rescue crews extracted the driver of the SUV with the Jaws of Life. The driver was then airlifted by Boston Medflight to UMass Memorial Medical Center – University Campus in Worchester. The young man’s condition was has not yet been made available.
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This past weekend, a single vehicle accident claimed the life of a Massachusetts man near his home in Westport. The car crash occurred on Robert Street around 2pm on Saturday.

The crash victim was identified as a 64-year-old man who would have turned 65 on Tuesday. He was driving his 1990 Buick sound on Robert Street when his vehicle left the roadway, hitting a chain link fence. The crash send the Buick across both lanes of Robert Street and killed the driver.

Westport police and the Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Team are still investigating the cause of the fatal crash.

Source: Just before his birthday, man dies in crash, EastBayRI.com, September 7, 2010 Continue reading

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According to a study commissioned by Allstate Insurance, Washington, DC is home to the least safe drivers in the country. The study looked at claims data for 2007 and 2008, and did not include Massachusetts drivers, since Allstate did not sell insurance in the Commonwealth during that the period.

The claims data showed that DC drivers are on average involved in an accident every 5.1 years, which means that motorists in our country’s capital are 96% more likely to get into an auto accident than drivers elsewhere. In Baltimore, Maryland, the second most dangerous area, that figure is an accident every 5.6 years.

Fort Collins, Colorado topped the list of safe drivers with an average of 14.5 years between collisions.

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Last weekend, a fatal accident on Interstate 91 resulted in the arrest of a 32-year-old Connecticut man who allegedly caused the traffic accident that killed a state trooper. The trooper had been a 22-year veteran of the state police, according to an article in the Norwich Bulletin.

The trooper had pulled over another driver, when the truck driver reportedly slammed into his cruiser, sideswiping the car that was pulled over, and rolling onto the shoulder. The driver of the truck was being treated for injuries at Bayside Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he is being guarded by Massachusetts troopers. Bail has been set at $50,000.

The man has an arrest and motor vehicle violation record in Connecticut, and a Connecticut state police spokesperson said the investigation continues.

Sources: Conn. man accused in fatal crash held in Mass., Boston Herald, September 5, 2010
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Two motorists were killed this past Tuesday afternoon in Westport. The fatal car accident, which occurred on Route 195, involved two-vehicles.

One of the drivers, a 75-year-old resident of Fall River, suffered severe injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash. The other motorist, a 61-year-old woman from Somerset, was airlifted to Rhode Island hospital for treatment. Unfortunately, the woman succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the hospital later that evening.

The accident occurred at approximately 4:25 p.m. According to the preliminary investigation, the individual from Fall River was traveling in the eastbound lane of Route 195 in a Nissan Quest when the vehicle crossed the grass median onto the westbound lanes. The Nissan then struck the 2007 Chevrolet Equinox being operated by the Somerset women.

The accident caused that section of the highway to be shut down for approximately two hours. The Massachusetts State Police are currently investigating the automobile accident.
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The Massachusetts State Police are currently on the lookout for a hit-and-run driver that struck a police cruiser and injured a civilian. The accident occurred on I-395 in Chicopee early Saturday morning.

A state police trooper was stooped on the side of the Chicopee stretch of the highway near exit 4 assisting a motorist with a flat tire. A few moments later, as the motorist stood by the driver’s side window of the state police cruiser speaking with the trooper, an SUV swerved into the breakdown lane on I-395, colliding with not only the state police cruiser, but also the pedestrian standing at the window.

Following the accident, the SUV fled the scene of the crash. Police have described the SUV as being light in color and it will likely have heavy front-end damage as the result of the accident.
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On Monday, a traffic accident in Lowell, Massachusetts sent a 12-year-old boy with the hospital with serious head injuries. The boy was riding his bike when Williard Street around 2pm when he was reportedly hit by a red Sedan. Witnesses said the boy went flying and the car crash sounded like two vehicles colliding.

Police said the bike accident victim was airlifted from the scene of the bike accident to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. The victim was not wearing a bike helmet and sustained serious head and neck injuries.

Authorities are still investigating the cause of the Lowell bike accident.

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A Lynn man was seriously injured when the moped which he was operating was struck by an allegedly drunk driver. The collision took place at the intersection of North Street and Liberty Hill Avenue in Salem at approximately 1:30 a.m. this past Saturday morning.

Following the accident, the driver of the moped was transported to North Shore Medical Center before being transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

The operator of the moped was struck by an allegedly drunk Peabody woman driving a Volkswagen Passat. Police reported that they smelled an odor of alcohol on the 25-year-old driver’s breath and that her speech was slurred and her eyes were both bloodshot and glassy.
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Saturday morning, a police chase that began in Chelsea resulted in the deaths of two individuals in Revere. The preliminary investigation states that the suspect was being pursued by the Chelsea Police Department prior to the collision.

The two vehicles collided when the driver, who was fleeing from the police moments before, ran a red light and struck a vehicle driven by a 65-year-old Revere man.

Following the crash, which occurred at the intersection of Revere Parkway and Route 145, both drivers were ejected from their cars. One of the men was pronounced dead at the scene while the other was pronounced dead at Whidden Memorial Hospital in Everett.
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Last week, a falling tree in Malden injured a man riding in a black Ford pickup truck that was traveling westbound. The truck accident occurred last Wednesday morning on Pleasant Street. The driver of the pickup truck declined medical attention, but his passenger was treated for non-life-threatening injuries at Massachusetts General Hospital.

The falling tree crushed the truck’s hood and cab, also striking an eastbound van driven by a 56-year-old Lowell man. The man works as a computer repairman and says this is the second company van destroyed by a falling tree. The previous accident occurred within the past two years, when a tree branch feel on the van in his driveway during an ice storm.

The Malden Department of Public Works cleared away debris from the auto accident.

Source: Tree falls in Malden, injuring truck passenger, Boston Globe, August 26, 2010 Continue reading

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