Connecticut
Connecticut police officers looking out for drunk drivers on Thanksgiving Eve
CONNECTICUT (WTNH) — Thanksgiving Eve is a holiday right up there with New Years Eve and Super Bowl Sunday when it comes to drunk driving incidents.
State police officers are on the road looking for drunk drivers, trying to keep everyone safe with a strong message.
“The fire department had to use the jaws of life to cut the whole driver side door off because I couldn’t get out of the vehicle, I was wedged in,” Connecticut State Police Trooper Chandler Chasse said.
Chasse was hit by a driver on the job and has had to stop wrong way drivers on the highway. This year, he’s in the Hartford area looking for drunk drivers.
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BURLINGTON, Conn. (WTNH) — A woman is dead after police said she was involved in a head-on collision with a tractor-trailer on Friday in Burlington.
According to Connecticut State Police, a Toyota RAV4 and Peterbuilt 386 tractor-trailer collided head-on on Route 4 near Punch Brook Road at around 4:49 p.m. on Friday.
The driver of the Toyota, identified as 64-year-old Mary Christine Ferland of Burlington, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the tractor-trailer was not injured, according to state police. No one else was in either vehicle at the time of the crash.
The crash is still under investigation by state police, anyone with information is asked to call Trooper Brew at 860-626-7900.
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