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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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22-Year-Old CT Woman Dies In Rollover Crash
A 22-year-old Connecticut woman died in a single-vehicle crash on Route 8.
The crash happened in Torrington, located in Litchfield County, at about 6:20 a.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 2, Connecticut State Police reported.
A 1999 New Volkswagen Beetle GLS was northbound on Route 8 near Exit 46 and was negotiating the curve in the road, police said.
For an unknown reason, the driver, identified as Paige Marjorie Cianciolo, of Torrington, lost control of the car and traveled into the median, authorities reported.
Police said the car rolled several times before coming to a stop on the southboun…
Man Killed After SUV Crashes Into Cement Wall On CT Roadway
A Connecticut man was killed during a single-vehicle crash.
It happened around 2:20 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 20 on Route 8 in the city of Torrington in Litchfield County.
According to Connecticut State Police, New Haven County resident Barry Zaret, age 82, of Woodbridge, was traveling southbound near Exit 45, when his 2015 Toyota Rav4 left the roadway, drove on a grassy media and up a dirt mount before taking flight, and hitting the guardrail before colliding into a cement wall on Winthrop Street in Torrington.
The vehicle's final resting position was suspended on a telephone wire, …
