A shaken-up motorist who reportedly noticed a trooper come flying down I-495 earlier than he crashed right into a truck and flipped a number of instances is asking out Mass State Police for its response to the “dangerous” scenario.
Andover girl Jaime Kenney, 56, tells the Herald that the “horrific” incident might have been “so much worse.”
Kenney was heading down I-495 south Wednesday night to go see her brother out in Shrewsbury, who was being honored for serving to save a scholar’s life.
However on the best way, Kenney and her vital different have been caught in heavy, rush-hour site visitors when a GMC Sierra pickup truck got here barreling in and rear-ended them at a excessive pace.
The airbags didn’t go off of their Porsche Cayenne, however Kenney reported smoke of their automotive and it was not drivable within the quick lane.
She says she known as 911 at 6:15 p.m., telling the dispatcher that each their Porsche and the GMC truck wanted tow vehicles, as automobiles have been flying by on the freeway in Tewksbury, proper earlier than the Lowell Connector.
When a trooper didn’t reply for almost half-hour, she known as 911 once more.
“It was taking forever, and it was such a dangerous situation on a really scary part of 495,” Kenney stated. “It was a really busy night for State Police, but this was a very serious situation.”
Then moments later, her vital different informed her to be careful. A trooper got here flying in at about 80 mph, she estimated.
“He swerved to try to miss the (GMC) truck, but clipped the truck, and then rolled over six or seven times,” Kenney stated. “It was the scariest thing I’ve ever seen in my entire life. I thought he was dead… It was horrific… Absolutely wild.”
The trooper extricated himself from the cruiser, and drivers have been pulling over to assist him. He was transported by way of ambulance to a neighborhood hospital with non-life-threatening accidents.
“The trooper was rushing in to help us, and I was just devastated to see him like that,” Kenney stated. “It could have been so much worse.”
The cruiser crash was preventable, she stated, stressing that it wouldn’t have occurred if MSP’s response time was faster to their preliminary crash.
“It’s not like we were stuck in rural Vermont,” Kenney stated. “I just don’t understand the disconnect between me making a phone call on the side of I-495 in Tewksbury and them taking 30 minutes. What’s with our 911 system?”
State Police responded to a number of crashes on I-495 throughout rush hour Wednesday night.
A Mass State Police spokesperson stated in an announcement, “The circumstances of the crash remain under investigation.”
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