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New Update: I-95 Stretch Fully Reopens After Fiery Crash In CT Causes Days-Long Closure New Update: I-95 Stretch Fully Reopens After Fiery Crash In CT Causes Days-Long Closure
New Update: I-95 Stretch Fully Reopens After Fiery Crash In CT Causes Days-Long Closure This story has been updated. A stretch of I-95 in Connecticut has now fully reopened three days after a fire involving a tanker with 8,500 gallons of gas days earlier. Northbound lanes on the stretch in Norwalk reopened Saturday evening, May 4. Lanes opened on the southbound side reopened late Sunday morning, May 5, earlier than had been expected. The first image above was taken around 11 a.m. Sunday. The blaze broke out after a crash on Thursday, May 2 near exits 14 and 15 between the truck and a passenger vehicle at around 6 a.m.  The tanker fire was raging for…
Triple Trouble: Family Gets Combative With Troopers After Wrong-Way Stop In Hartford, Cops Say Triple Trouble: Family Gets Combative With Troopers After Wrong-Way Stop In Hartford, Cops Say
Relatives Combative After Wrong-Way Hartford Stop: Cops Three relatives were arrested following a wrong-way traffic stop on a Connecticut highway in which the women allegedly became combative with troopers. The incident happened at around 10:30 p.m. Monday, April 22, on I-84 in Hartford. Connecticut State Police said a trooper was responding to a crash near Exit 46 when they saw a Jeep going westbound in the eastbound lanes.  The Jeep then drove off the roadway into a grassy area before turning around to face east. The trooper conducted a traffic stop and determined that the driver, 34-year-old Brenda Crespo, of East Hartford, had expired…
CT Man Ticketed In NY Crash That Seriously Injured 6-Year-Old CT Man Ticketed In NY Crash That Seriously Injured 6-Year-Old
CT Man Ticketed In NY Crash That Seriously Injured 6-Year-Old A 6-year-old boy was airlifted to a hospital with severe lacerations following a crash on I-87 in the Hudson Valley. The collision occurred around 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 22, on I-87 in Orange County in the town of Newburgh. According to Trooper Tara McCormick of the New York State Police, a preliminary investigation at the scene determined that a 2022 Toyota Tundra was parked on the right shoulder when the driver, Connecticut resident Peter W. Nugent, age 42, of the town of Sharon in Litchfield County, reentered the roadway into the path of a 2011 Toyota Venza.  The Venza overturned…
Hit-Run: CT Man Charged With Killing 19-Year-old Woman Hit-Run: CT Man Charged With Killing 19-Year-old Woman
Hit-Run: CT Man Charged With Killing 19-Year-old Woman Police have arrested a man for a hit-and-run crash that killed a 19-year-old Fairfield County woman. Troy Watley, age 28, of Stratford, was arrested on Saturday, July 1, after he allegedly hit and killed the 19-year-old shortly after 12 a.m., near St, Michael’s Cemetery on Stratford Avenue and then fled from the scene, said Capt. Frank Eannotti, of the Stratford Police. When Stratford police arrived on the scene they found Michelle Rodriguez, of Stratford, lying in the roadway, Eannotti said. She was rushed to Bridgeport Hospital where she died from her injuries. Evidence at the scene led…
Man Found With Loaded Revolver, 2 Pounds Of Marijuana During Hartford Traffic Stop, Police Say Man Found With Loaded Revolver, 2 Pounds Of Marijuana During Hartford Traffic Stop, Police Say
Man Found With Loaded Revolver, 2 Pounds Of Marijuana During Hartford Traffic Stop, Police Say A 32-year-old man was charged after police said he was found in possession of a loaded revolver, more than a kilogram of marijuana, and illegal mushrooms during a traffic stop in Connecticut.  The incident happened on I-84 westbound in Hartford on Wednesday, Sept. 21, Connecticut State Police said. Troopers saw a Mercedes-Benz swerving and failing to maintain a proper lane position near Exit 44 at about 11 p.m., police said. Police pulled the vehicle over on the Exit 40 off-ramp, according to the report. State Police said the driver, identified as Steven Samuels, of New Britain,…
Police Search For Man Accused Of Crashing Into Pizza Truck In CT Police Search For Man Accused Of Crashing Into Pizza Truck In CT
Police Search For Man Accused Of Crashing Into Pizza Truck In CT Police are searching for a man accused of crashing a car into a pizza truck in Connecticut and then leaving the scene.  The crash happened in Middlesex County at 4:20 p.m. on Saturday, April 23 on I-91 in the town of Cromwell, according to Connecticut State Police. A Big Green Truck Pizza vehicle was traveling in the right lane on I-91 northbound near Exit 21 when a 2005 Toyota Scion that was in the left lane crossed all lanes of traffic at a high rate of speed and crashed into the rear of the pizza truck, police said. The driver of the pizza truck, a 25-year-old Hamden man, and a 32-…
Western Mass Driver Critical After Brutal Attack By Dirt Bikers, ATV Drivers, Police Say Western Mass Driver Critical After Brutal Attack By Dirt Bikers, ATV Drivers, Police Say
Western Mass Driver Critical After Brutal Attack By Dirt Bikers, ATV Drivers, Police Say A Western Massachusetts man is in critical condition after being assaulted by a large group of dirt bikers and ATV drivers following a small traffic mishap. The incident took place around 9:30 p.m., Monday, July 5, near the X intersection when the driver came in contact with one of the dirt bikes tires at a stoplight, said Springfield Police Commissioner Cheryl Clapprood at a press conference. When the driver got out of the vehicle, the drivers, some of who turned around when the light changed, attacked the man with the helmets and other items, police said. The driver was brought to t…
Officer Jumps Guardrail To Avoid Alleged Drunk Driver Officer Jumps Guardrail To Avoid Alleged Drunk Driver
Officer Jumps Guardrail To Avoid Alleged Drunk Driver Police were caught up between two allegedly drunk drivers on Route 9 Sunday, Oct. 11, as one drove the wrong way down the highway and the other almost ran over a state trooper. Connecticut State Police Hartford barracks received calls on Sunday around 4 a.m. about a driver headed north in southbound lanes near the Cromwell/Berlin Exit 22, police said. Police found their suspect when the driver was allegedly barreling toward officers at a high rate of speed. Officers were able to get the vehicle to stop without incident, police said. While police were dealing with the situation, another mo…