Connecticut
Two seriously injured in Stamford crash
Two people have serious injuries after a crash in Stamford on Thursday night.
Police said the crash happened on High Ridge Road near Cedarwood Drive around 10:34 p.m.
A 55-year-old Stamford resident was heading south in a 2008 Chevy Suburban, drifted across the centerline into the northbound lane and hit a 2019 Cadillac SUV driven by an 88 year-old New York resident, police said.
Both vehicles were heavily damaged and the Stamford Fire Department extricated the drivers from both vehicles.
Both drivers were taken to Stamford Hospital, where medical staff determined that their injuries were serious, but not life-threatening, policed said.
High Ridge Road was closed for several hours and has reopened.
Anyone who saw the crash or who has information is asked to call the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Squad at (203) 977-4712.
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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