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A driver of a pickup truck had to be extricated after a single motor-vehicle crash on Middle Road, in Dummerston, Vt., around 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Members of the Brattleboro Fire Department helped Dummerston with the Jaws of Life. The driver was transported to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, and then airlifted by DHART to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, in Lebanon, N.H., for unknown injuries. Vermont State Police are investigating the cause of the crash. The road had to be shut down as crews removed the vehicle from a creek that runs along Middle Road.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Re
A driver of a pickup truck had to be extricated after a single motor-vehicle crash on Middle Road, in Dummerston, Vt., around 4:20 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Members of the Brattleboro Fire Department helped Dummerston with the Jaws of Life. The driver was transported to Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, and then airlifted by DHART to Dartmou
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Vermont police: Wrong-way driver on I-91 causes crashes
Published: 12/14/2020 9:37:46 PM
Modified: 12/14/2020 9:37:42 PM
DUMMERSTON, Vt. Multiple people were injured in a series of crashes caused by a wrong-way driver on Interstate 91 in Dummerston, Vermont State Police said.
Police received a report of a southbound vehicle in the northbound lane at about 5:40 p.m. Sunday.
A state trooper encountered the wrong-way driver and was sideswiped by the pickup truck.
The trooper turned around to pursue the vehicle.
A short time later, the pickup truck collided head-on with a northbound van, causing the van to strike a third vehicle. Two other vehicles went off the road while taking evasive action.
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BRATTLEBORO â For the second day in a row, accused wrong-way driver Bernard McDonald was unable to appear in court due to the injuries he sustained in a head-on collision on Interstate 91 in Dummerston Sunday evening.
McDonald, who is a patient at Brattleboro Memorial Hospital, does not understand what is going on, his court-appointed lawyer Albert Fox told Judge John Treadwell. McDonald, 65, who lives in Westborough, Mass., told police he was in Vermont on Sunday visiting a daughter in Chester. He faces a total of 15 charges, and prosecutors expect to file additional charges once test results come back. McDonald told police he had been drinking beer earlier in the day, and police said there was a strong odor of alcohol on his breath after the crash.
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Vermont State Police Investigators have developed additional information about this incident: Responding to a 911 call reporting the wrong-way driver on the interstate, Vermont State Police Trooper Ryan Miller stopped his fully marked state police Ford Explorer cruiser, with lights and siren activated, blocking part of the northbound travel lane of I-91 in the area of mile marker 18. The vehicle traveling south in the northbound lane subsequently struck the cruiser, which sustained only minor damage. Trooper Miller was uninjured. He then crossed to the southbound lanes and continued to follow the wrong-way driver on the other side of the highway. (See details below)