truck crash

A truck slammed into a freight train in northern Maine on Wednesday, leaving the truck’s driver seriously hurt and derailing the train, police said. The crash left Route 11 in Masardis closed, possibly for two or three days, while equipment is brought to the town to re-rail the train, according to Maine State Police. The driver, James Tapley, a 26-year-old…

A dump truck crashed off the ramp from Interstate 93 to I-95 in Canton, Massachusetts, on Monday, causing one person to be seriously injured, police said. Video showed the truck on its side in the median of the exit, leaving rocks strewn across the grass. The person who was injured was taken to a Boston hospital by ambulance, according to…

A driver died when his pickup truck veered off a road and into another pickup and a tree in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, on Sunday night, officials said. Linneaus Gitonga, a 34-year-old from Rockland, was found dead at the scene of the crash, on Auburn Street near Laurel Street, Bridgewater police and firefighters said Monday. He had been driving a Chevy Avalanche…

A man walking on Interstate 95 in Augusta, Maine, was hit and killed by a pickup truck driving down the highway Friday morning, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear why the man, identified as Matthew Galletta, a 55-year-old from Manchester, Maine, was in the right lane of the highway when he was struck about 5:20 a.m. at mile marker 111….

A truck crashed in Revere, Massachusetts, Tuesday morning, spilling trash on a parking lot off Bell’s Circle. Police say the truck was carrying a cargo of scrap metal, which spilled out onto the ground. No injuries were reported in the crash. Parts of Beach Street were closed for more than three hours while crews cleaned up the area. The...

A worker for the town of Falmouth, Massachusetts, died after crashing a Department of Public Works pickup truck Wednesday, officials said. The truck crashed into a tree off Davisville Road about 2:19 p.m., Falmouth police said Thursday. The driver, a town employee who wasn’t identified, was critically hurt and died at Falmouth Hospital. Police are investigating what caused the...

A person was found dead in a pickup truck that was hit by another truck after stopping in traffic on Interstate 93 in Reading, Massachusetts, overnight, police said Thursday. The driver of the pickup, 41-year-old Michael Murphy of Tewksbury, was found fatally injured, according to Massachusetts State Police. The Vermont man who was driving the other truck, a 2022 International…

A truck crashed on Massachusetts Route 6 at the Sagamore Bridge on Friday, spilling gravel on the highway and closing a lane, officials said. The crash appeared to be snarling traffic on the bridge to Cape Cod at the start of Labor Day Weekend. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the crash. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation…

A truck crashed under the Tobin Bridge in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood on Monday. The crashed truck rolled onto its side on Terminal Street under the bridge. The street was temporarily blocked as first responders attended to the crash. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was hurt in the crash or how it happened. NBC10 Boston has reached out to...

A truck driver was left in critical condition after his big rig crashed into the back porch of a house in Bellingham, Massachusetts, Thursday morning. The crash took place on Hartford Avenue about 9:27 a.m., according to the Bellingham fire chief. The driver was rushed to the hospital, he said. A dog was also inside the truck but wasn’t...

A big rig truck rolled over on Thursday morning on Interstate 95 in Reading, Massachusetts, officials said, snarling traffic into the morning commute. The truck crash happened on the northbound side of I-95 as it approached Exit 57, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said. Lanes had to be closed following the crash, and at one point, traffic had to get…

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The family of Sidney Mae Olson, a 5-year-old girl who was hit by a truck while crossing a street in Andover, Massachusetts, this week, released a new statement Thursday mourning the “bright-eyed, energetic girl” and urging the town to change the intersection where she was killed.

A truck rolled over on Interstate 95 in Lexington, Massachusetts, Monday, causing injuries and snarling traffic, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear how many injuries the crash caused. Massachusetts State Police said the crash, involving a truck carrying rocks on the northbound side of the highway, closed all but two lanes of traffic in both directions. The crash took place…

Several people were sent to the hospital after a truck crashed with cars in Charlton, Massachusetts, Sunday afternoon, state police said. There weren’t many details about the crash on state Route 20 at Masonic Home Road immediately available, including how many people were injured. The crash caused diesel fuel to be spilled, state police said, referring further questions to local…

A crash that involved multiple vehicles closed a lane of traffic on Wednesday morning on Interstate 95 south in Peabody, Massachusetts, according to the state’s department of transportation. The crash, which caused injuries, happened in the area of Exit 62. The left lane was closed as of 9:15 a.m., according to MassDOT. Aerial footage showed a crashed truck in the…

A teenager driving a moped was killed when the vehicle collided with a dump truck in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Tuesday, authorities said. The crash took place about 11:15 a.m. on Washington Street, near the border of Boston’s West Roxbury neighborhood, according to the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office. The moped had two people on board, and both were rushed by...

A truck appeared to be stuck in a tunnel on a road at Boston Logan International Airport Wednesday.

A man was seriously injured after two trucks crashed in Kittery, Maine, on Thursday morning, officials said. A box truck that was traveling southbound on the Maine Turnpike rear-ended a fully loaded cement truck near the New Hampshire border, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety. The box truck’s driver, Boston resident Manuel Depina-Gonolves, 22, was severely injured in…

A dump truck rolled over on Interstate 295 in Attleboro on Wednesday, causing injuries, according to Massachusetts transit officials. The crash closed all but the breakdown lane of the northbound side of the highway, according to the state Department of Transportation. Delays were expected on the highway. It wasn’t immediately clear how many people were hurt or what caused the…