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Fatal Crash: Tractor-Trailer Loses Control On CT Highway, Runs Off Shoulder Fatal Crash: Tractor-Trailer Loses Control On CT Highway, Runs Off Shoulder
Fatal Crash: Tractor-Trailer Loses Control On CT Highway, Runs Off Shoulder Authorities are investigating an early morning crash involving a tractor-trailer in northern Connecticut that left a 56-year-old man dead.  The incident happened in Windham County on Friday, July 21 around 3:45 a.m., when the tractor-trailer traveling northbound on Interstate 395 in the area of Exit 45 in Putnam lost control and drove off the left shoulder of the highway, according to state police.  The tractor-trailer then came to a final, uncontrolled rest in the left lane across from the Exit 45 off-ramp.  The driver, 56-year-old Archie Miller of Kingston, Pennsylvania, d…

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by Ben Crnic
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Jackknifed Tractor-Trailer Spills Fuel On Snow-Covered I-84 Stretch Jackknifed Tractor-Trailer Spills Fuel On Snow-Covered I-84 Stretch
Jackknifed Tractor-Trailer Spills Fuel On Snow-Covered I-84 Stretch Fuel had to be cleaned from a snow-covered stretch of Interstate 84  in Connecticut following a crash involving a tractor-trailer.  The crash happened in Tolland County on Tuesday morning, Feb. 28, when an Amazon tractor-trailer crashed on Interstate 84 westbound in Willington between Exit 71 and Exit 72, according to state police.  The tractor-trailer became jackknifed and spilled fuel as a result of the crash, police said. Officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Environmental Services, Inc. then responded to the scene and were able to clean up the s…

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by Ben Crnic
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Lanes Reopen After I-95 Crash In CT Lanes Reopen After I-95 Crash In CT
Lanes Reopen After I-95 Crash In CT This story has been updated. Lanes on a stretch of I-95 have reopened after being closed most of Saturday morning, June 18 following a tractor-trailer crash. The crash happened southbound between exits 14 and 13 at 5 a.m.  A tractor-trailer truck in the breakdown lane was waiting to have a tire repaired when another tractor-trailer struck it, Norwalk Fire Department Deputy Chief Edward Prescott said.  The crash ruptured the diesel saddle tank of the disabled truck and spilled the vegetable contents of the other truck across the highway, Prescott said. The two drivers were uninj…

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by Joe Lombardi