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Wrong-Way Driver Collides Head-On With CT Police Cruiser: Cops
An 85-year-old man crashed into a police car while driving the wrong way on a highway in Connecticut, authorities said.
Gerald Lapointe, of Florence, Massachusetts, was cited after he crashed into a Connecticut State Police car in Harwinton in Litchfield County just after midnight on Friday, Nov. 15, police said.
In the police cruiser dash cam video of the crash, the trooper flashes his spotlight on the driver to alert him, but Lapointe continues driving south in the northbound lane of Route 8, about a mile south of exit 44, authorities said.
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Wrong-Way Driver Killed In Route 8 Head-On Collision
A 30-year-old Connecticut man was killed early Sunday morning, Oct. 20, after driving the wrong way on a highway and crashing into an oncoming car in New Haven County, authorities said.
Aron Tyrell Vann, of Waterbury in New Haven County, drove south in the northbound lanes along Route 8 in Waterbury when his Nissan Altima collided with a Jeep Cherokee just after 3 a.m., Connecticut State Police said.
Paramedics rushed Vann to Waterbury Hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.
The Jeep driver, a 36-year-old from Allentown, Pennsylvania, suffered minor injurie…
Man Accused Of Leaving CT Crash Scene, Driving Unregistered Car, More: Police
A Connecticut man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly crashed into another car on a highway, injuring two, and fled the scene.
The New Haven County incident occurred on Friday, July 12 in the town of Seymour, according to Connecticut State Police.
Just after 10 p.m. that night, 34-year-old Bethany man Brandon Graham was driving a gray Mercedes-Benz 380SL northbound on Route 8.
Near the area of Exit 22, he reportedly hit the back bumper of the car in front of him, a Nissan Sentra carrying two people.
After the crash, Graham’s vehicle car veered into the left lane and hit the …
