The trooper who was significantly injured in a hit-and-run crash on the facet of the Mass Pike final week has been launched from the hospital.
Mass State Police Trooper Sean Clark was transferred to a bodily rehabilitation facility the place he’ll proceed his restoration, MSP introduced on Monday.
Clark was conducting a visitors cease at round 2:20 a.m. final Tuesday when a 32-year-old girl allegedly struck him along with her automobile on the facet of I-90 west in Chicopee. She was allegedly driving drunk.
The trooper was rushed with severe accidents to Baystate Medical Middle, which is a stage 1 trauma heart. Lower than every week later, he was launched from the hospital and transferred to the rehab facility.
Mass State Police on Monday posted a photograph of a smiling Clark with a thumbs up.
“On behalf of Trooper Clark, we would like to thank everyone who has reached out with well wishes for him and his family,” Mass State Police posted.
“We continue to wish Trooper Clark the best in his recovery and remind all drivers to remember to move over when they see a first responder on the side of the road,” MSP added.
Naisha Rodriguez, 32, of Springfield, was arrested in reference to the hit-and-run crash.
She was arraigned final week and charged with working below the affect inflicting severe bodily harm, deceptive a police investigation, and leaving the scene of a motorized vehicle crash inflicting private harm. Bail was set at $500,000.
Troopers assigned to the Collision Evaluation and Reconstruction Part, the Crime Scene Companies Part, and the State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Hampden District Legal professional’s Workplace responded to the scene, together with an assistant district lawyer assigned to the Hampden District Legal professional’s Motor Car Fatality Unit.
The Massachusetts State Police Worker Help Unit additionally responded to offer for the wants of first responders.
Detectives from the Hampden District Legal professional’s State Police Detective Unit and Violent Fugitive Apprehension Part-West had been capable of determine Rodriguez as a suspect, and arrested her at her residence in Springfield.
Not too long ago on Beacon Hill, there was a invoice listening to to strengthen the “Move Over Law” — with the objective of accelerating security on the roads.
Below the present legislation, a driver violating the Transfer Over Legislation can face a $100 wonderful.
The proposed invoice would set up a $250 wonderful for a primary offense, a $500 wonderful for a second offense, and a $1,000 wonderful for a 3rd or subsequent offense. Additionally, any violation that leads to harm to a different individual may very well be punished by a wonderful of $2,500 or as much as one yr in jail.
