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Saturday, April 12, 2014

Fourteen people were injured, two seriously, in a three-car crash on Interstate 84 west in Vernon and traffic was backed up for miles on Sunday night.

Firefighters are calling it a mass casualty incident.

Two LifeStar helicopters transported two people who suffered serious injuries, ambulances transported 11 people and nine paramedics responded to the scene between exits 66 and 65, according to police and dispatchers.

Date: 
Saturday, April 12, 2014
A Norwalk man riding a motorcycle on Interstate 95 just before midnight Sunday in Stamford was killed when he drove into a construction vehicle. Armando Barrera, 38, of 77 Benedict St., Norwalk, was killed instantly in the crash, according to State Police. Trooper Kelly Grant said Barrera struck a construction truck while riding his motorcycle at 11:50 p.m., was thrown off the bike and then struck by another vehicle. The incident occurred in the northbound lanes, just before exit 9.