Crash sends parked police cruiser over guardrail
A state trooper is expected to recover after a tractor-trailer slammed into the back of his parked cruiser yesterday morning, sending it over the guardrail and into the woods alongside the Mass Pike in Framingham, officials said.
The crash, which occurred about 7:20 a.m. on the westbound side of the highway near the Edgell Road snow gate, sent the trooper’s fully marked state police SUV down an embankment and into the woods, state police said. The trooper, whose name was not released last night, was reportedly removed from the woods on a backboard and rushed by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, where state police said he was expected to fully recover.
Crews were forced to use a crane to haul the damaged SUV out of the woods.
The driver of the tractor-trailer, which was registered out of Indiana, was uninjured in the crash.
No citations or charges were announced in connection with the crash last night, which is being investigated by State Police Troop E and the State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Section.