Traffic & Transit
Pickup Spills Insulation All Over I-84 In Vernon: Police
A trailing car became entangled in insulation that flew off a pickup on I-84 in Vernon, state police said.
VERNON, CT — A pickup truck littered a section of Interstate 84 in Vernon with insulation over the weekend and it ultimately caused a crash, state police said.
According to a crash report, at 4:22 p.m. Saturday a 2008 Nissan Frontier being driven by a 46-year-old Hartford man was heading east in the center lane near Exit 66 in Vernon with "cargo bundles" of insulation in the bed of a pickup. A 2024 Honda Civic with a 19-year-old Stafford woman driving was in the left lane, according to a crash report.
The bundles of insulation were not secured and began falling out of the bed of the pickup and landed on the highway, according to a crash report.
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The driver of the Honda could not avoid the bundles and hit them them, according to a crash report. Neither she nor her 20-year-old passer from Tolland suffered an injury, state police said.
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