State police have charged a man in connection with a fatal fiery crash on the Gold Star Bridge last year. Reginald Collins, 59, of New London, has been charged…
State police have charged a man in connection with a fatal fiery crash on the Gold Star Bridge last year.
They then learned that a tire on the Toyota Avalon that Collins was driving failed and deflated and he stopped the car in the right acceleration lane of the bridge, according to an arrest warrant.Soon after the Avalon stopped, a tractor-trailer carrying home heating oil hit the back of it, rolled over and caught fire, according to state police.The driver of the tractor-trailer died and Collins and a passenger in his car sustained injuries that are not life-threatening, state police said.
Then he changed lanes, stopped to check the tires and found that the front driver’s side tire was shredded.The passenger who had been in the Avalon told police that the shaking got really bad when they were on the bridge and the front passenger side tire was shredded as well.
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