The Lowell Sun
RANDOLPH, Mass. — Two Massachusetts state police cruisers have been struck by other vehicles in separate overnight highway crashes.
State police said a trooper was taken to a hospital with minor injuries early Tuesday after another vehicle plowed into the back of his cruiser in the westbound lanes of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Newton. The trooper was working a paid construction detail.
The other car flipped over and firefighters extricated the driver, who was hospitalized.
A short time before that crash in Randolph, state police said a vehicle going the wrong way on Route 24 struck a cruiser and three other cars.
The trooper, who was putting down stop sticks to try to puncture the tires of the wrong-way vehicle, was not hurt.
Two other people suffered minor injuries.
Police arrested the wrong-way driver, who was described as “impaired.”
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