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A 55-year-old Haverhill man was killed in a car crash overnight in Lawrence.
State Police say Carlos Cunha was driving a 2004 Buick Lesabre that rolled over on I-495 northbound around 1:55 a.m. The rolled over car came to a stop between the left and middle lanes before it was hit by a tractor trailer.
Officials say at some point, Cunha was thrown from the car and killed.
The driver of the tractor trailer was not injured.
State Police are investigating
A Norton man was arrested after a car crash in Mansfield resulted in the death of a man Friday night.
Officials responded to a motor vehicle crash in the northbound lanes of Route 140 at around 11:57 p.m., where they say that 23-year-old Nicholas Salvo was traveling at a high speed and ran a red light at the intersection of Norfolk St.
Salvo was placed under arrest and was transported to Rhode Island Hospital. He has been charged with motor vehicle homicide, OUI and other traffic-related violations.
State police have identified a man who was killed in an early Friday morning rollover in the northbound lanes of Interstate 91 as 24-year-old Luis Cardona Rodriguez of Holyoke.
The single-car crash was reported shortly before 2 a.m. just before Exit 9B in the North End.
State police said their preliminary investigation shows that the 2002 Honda Accord, for reasons still under investigation, lost control, and at some point left the roadway on the right side and rolled over.
Two people were rushed to the hospital with serious injuries after a single-car crash in New Bedford late Thursday night.
New Bedford police say a car crashed into a utility pole just before 9 p.m. Thursday on Susan Street. The car’s two passengers, a 26-year-old and a 19-year-old,were taken to Rhode Island Hospital.
Investigators said that police in Freetown may have been searching for the car that crashed before the accident occurred, but it is not clear if it was being chased at the time of the crash.
State Police confirmed one person was killed in a fiery crash on the Zakim Bridge Monday morning.
Officials said that a Malden taxi cab stopped in the right travel lane going northbound before it was struck from the back by a tractor trailer. State Police said it appeared that the taxi cab had broken down.
Firefighters rushed to help, but the fire proved too intense. By the time the vehicles were towed away, neither were recognizable. Both burned down to the metal.
The taxi driver, Debra Sarno, 54, of Chelsea was pronounced dead at the scene.
One person was taken to the hospital after a car crashed into a utility pole on Granville Road (Route 57) early Friday morning, police said.
Officers were called to the crash in the area of 235 Granville Road five minutes after midnight, according to a Southwick Police Department Dispatcher.
Police said one person was taken to Baystate Medical Center, but is expected to recover.
The road was closed as repairs were made to the utility pole but re-opened within an hour. Western Massachusetts Electric Company worked on the wires that were knocked down.
It was bad luck for the moose and a close call for four men in their 30s traveling on Route 2 in Westminster early Thursday morning.
Around 5:30 a.m. Thursday, driver Eric E. Smith, 36, of 18 Jackson Hill Road, Gardner, hit and killed a large moose with his 1997 Subaru Legacy while traveling east on Route 2 near exit 26. Passenger Jeffrey Tuax, 30, was treated for minor injuries; Bryan Meuer, 34, and Chris Comer, 37, also in the vehicle, were not reported injured, according to state police.
An Agawam driver was arrested and charged with drunken driving following a Thursday afternoon accident on South West Street in which a pedestrian was struck while walking along the side of the road, police said.
The driver, Cathy Sabol of 668 South West St., was charged with operating under the influence of alcohol and causing serious bodily injury, marked lanes violation, leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, leaving the scene of a property damage accident, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, and speeding.