Connecticut
Oxford man ‘unresponsive’ after crashing into trees on Riggs Street, state police say
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A file photo of a Connecticut State Police cruiser. Police said a man was seriously hurt when his pickup truck veered off Riggs Street and crashed into several trees Saturday morning.
OXFORD — An 81-year-old town man was seriously hurt when his pickup truck veered off Riggs Street and crashed into several trees Saturday morning, state police say.
The man was unresponsive and sent to the Waterbury Hospital following the crash, which occurred in the 200 block of Riggs Street around 11:15 a.m. Saturday, Connecticut State Police said in a news release.
Police said the man’s Toyota Tacoma swerved across the opposite travel lane, left the road and struck several trees. According to police, firefighters extricated the man from his truck and treated him at the scene.
Police said they did not know whether the man still was in the hospital Monday morning.
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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