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Thursday, March 27, 2014Area:
Boston, MAA Friday morning crash in Rochester involving an oil truck is under investigation, after one of the drivers was transported to the hospital.
Police said Dana Ferguson, 45, was backing his Kenworth oil truck into a driveway to make a delivery when it was struck in the bumper.
According to officials, Jared Dixon, 23, was driving his 2002 Hyundai Elantra north on Chestnut Hill Road when he struck the oil truck.
Dixon was transported by Frisbie Memorial EMS for non-life-threatening injuries, and his vehicle was towed due to extensive damage.
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Friday, March 21, 2014Area:
Boston, MAPolice say a New Hampshire man crashed into three police cruisers, causing minor injuries to two Salem officers.
Police say they found 30-year-old Luis Figueroa passed out in the front seat of a running car stopped on a road in a condominium complex on Friday night.
When the officer woke him, police say he sped off, hitting several parked cars, before driving head-on into a police cruiser, pushing it back about 15 feet. Police say he hit two other cruisers as he tried to get away.
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014State Fish & Game officials said a Lebanon man was injured in a snowmobile accident, and subsequently arrested and charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated.
According to authorities, Kevin Bailey was riding his snowmobile on the Northern Rail Trail in Enfield when he came upon a woman walking her dog. Bailey swerved to avoid the woman and her pet, and veered off the trail, crashing into a tree and suffering minor injuries.
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Saturday, March 15, 2014A Massachusetts man has been injured in a snowmobile accident in New Hampshire.
Fish and Game officers say 49-year-old Eric Mueller of Wales, Mass., lost control of the machine while going over a piece of uneven terrain at the Owl’s nest Golf Course in Campton on Sunday afternoon and was ejected.
Mueller was taken to a hospital with injuries to his torso. His condition wasn’t immediately known.
Fish and Game officer say it appears that operator inattention was a contributing factor in the accident.
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Friday, March 14, 2014Area:
Boston, MAA New Hampshire man has died in an early morning snowmobile crash in Barnstead.
Authorities say Aaron E. Brown of Dover was operating a snowmobile on private property at about 1:15 a.m. Saturday when he failed to negotiate a turn in a trail and collided with several trees. Brown was wearing a helmet.
Authorities say it appears that speed and alcohol may have contributed to the crash.
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014Area:
Boston, MAOne person was killed in a crash involving a tractor-trailer unit on Route 9 in Chesterfield on Wednesday night.
According to authorities, the tractor-trailer slid off the side of the road and into the snow-covered embankment. Officers think the driver tried to get out of the truck, and when they arrived, they found him pinned underneath the vehicle.
Rescue crews tried to extricate the driver, but were unsuccessful and he died on scene.
The cause of the collision remains under investigation.
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Saturday, March 8, 2014Area:
Portland-Auburn, MEA Franklin, Mass., woman was injured in a snowmobile crash Sunday afternoon in Milan.
Samantha Carneiro, 21, was operating a rented snowmobile when she went off into the soft snow around a sharp corner and crashed into some trees, officials from the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said.
Carneiro was thrown from the machine and suffered a leg injury.
Rescue personnel treated Carneiro at the scene of the accident and transported her from the trail to a waiting ambulance that took her to Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin.
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Friday, March 7, 2014Area:
Boston, MAA single-engine experimental plane has crashed while landing on an ice runway on Lake Winnipesaukee.
The small craft clipped a snow bank while attempting to land on the runway in Alton Bay. The pilot was the only person aboard and was uninjured.
Photos showed the bright yellow plane nose-down on the ice, its right landing gear apparently crumpled below it.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
The runway is still operational and safe for planes to land.