A Massachusetts State Police trooper and another person were hurt Wednesday in a crash in Leominster.
Skid marks, scrapes, shattered glass and broken car parts are all that remain after a cruiser that left the Leominster barracks to help in a police pursuit slammed into a Ford Focus sedan, seriously injuring the woman inside.
The 29-year-old Townsend woman was transported to UMass Memorial Medical Center with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
The 27-year-old trooper suffered a minor injury and was treated and released.
Investigators say that trooper had his lights and siren on at the time of the crash.
State police say that trooper had a tire deflation device, and he was heading in the direction of Worcester, where police were in pursuit of 35-year-old Ronald Paris.
Paris, a Worcester resident, allegedly failed to stop for a trooper on Lincoln Street for a revoked registration. Prosecutors said he took police on a chase, going onto and off of Interstates 290 and 190. He is accused of crossing over marked lane lines and failing to stop at stop signs.
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Paris eventually ditched his car and was arrested after a short foot chase, but not before prosecutors allege he tried to hit a trooper with his car.
"He made a swerving motion with his vehicle in an effort to strike a trooper's cruiser and the trooper was able to maneuver away from him," a prosecutor said.
Paris' bail was revoked on a prior case.
The cruiser crash in Leominster remains under investigation.