Carjacked Truck Crashes After Driver Pulled from Vehicle on Rantoul Street

A pickup truck crashed along Elliott Street on Tuesday evening, minutes after it was carjacked on Rantoul Street, according to Beverly police.

The name of the suspect was not immediately released and police said the “exact charges are pending.”

It started just before 5 p.m. on Tuesday when Beverly Police officers were called to the area of 275 Rantoul St., near Federal St., for a report of suspicious activity.

When they arrived, they found that a man who had been driving a black 2005 Ford Ranger pickup truck was approached by another man while in traffic.

The driver was pulled from the truck by the suspect, who then drove northbound on Rantoul Street. Just a few minutes later, Beverly police got a call about a crash in front of Dick & June’s Ice Cream on Elliott Street involving a black Ford Ranger pickup truck.

Police got there to find that the truck in the crash was the same truck involved in the Rantoul Street carjacking.

The driver was taken by ambulance to Beverly Hospital to be checked for possible injuries. The truck owner, who was carjacked, was not injured, police said. No weapon was shown in the carjacking, according to police.

Beverly police were never pursuing the truck, police said.

The incident is still under investigation, police said.