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POLICE: FOUR INJURED IN I-84 ROLLOVER CRASH

- — kendra.baker@ hearst.com

State police are investigat­ing a Sunday evening crash on westbound Interstate 84 in Danbury that sent four people to the hospital.

First responders were called to the area of Exit 4 shortly after 9 p. m. for a report of a motor vehicle rollover with injuries.

State police said there were two vehicles involved and four injured people — one of whom was on the ground conscious and breathing with a head laceration, according to dispatch reports.

That individual was later identified as a 38-year- old New Milford man who had been driving a 2012 Infiniti

G37 that made “multiple lane changes” between Exits 5 and 4 before striking the rear of a 2018 BMW

330i, according to state police.

The impact caused the BMW — driven by a 69year-old man from Thornwood, N.Y. — to go off the road and roll along a wooded embankment, police said.

Around 9:13 p.m., multiple ambulances were requested to the scene and a firefighte­r reported that the overturned BMW had caught fire with three people trapped inside.

Two lanes of traffic were blocked off as first responders worked the scene and extricated the trapped occupants.

The driver of the BMW and his 67- and 69-yearold passengers sustained minor injuries, according to state police. The driver was not transporte­d to Danbury Hospital, but the two passengers were.

The Infiniti driver sustained a non- life- threatenin­g head injury and his 36-year-old passenger injured her ankle, according to state police. They were both transporte­d to Danbury Hospital.

State police say the crash is currently under investigat­ion.

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