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The speeding driver, who had to be cut out of her car, and the three occupants of the pickup were taken to area hospitals, police said. The wrong-way car was traveling east in the westbound lane before the crash at 1296 Kings Highway Cutoff, police said.
Sandy Texiero, 21, of Perth Street, Bridgeport, the sole occupant of the speeding car, told her father she had just quit her job at a Westport hotel and was heading out with friends at 5 p.m., police said. The accident occurred at about 6:15 p.m.
It took 14 firefighters using multiple hydraulic rescue tools to remove three doors and the roof of the car to extricate her from the wreckage, police said. She was sent to St. Vincent’s Medical Center in Bridgeport with “compound, complex fractures to both legs,” said Police Lt. James Perez.
The pickup she hit was carrying a couple and their 8-year-old son, police said. They were sent to Bridgeport Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
Officers at the scene found 1.71 grams of marijuana in a prescription bottle and antipsychotic medication in the car, according to the police report.
Perez said the police department will use information from the car’s black box to determine exactly how fast the car was moving and whether Texiero applied the brakes.
No charges had been filed as of Monday morning. The investigation was ongoing.
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