Wrong-Way Driver Hits Several Vehicles, Closes Everett Turnpike South

NASHUA, NH — The F.E. Everett Turnpike was shut down on Sunday for several hours after a wrong-way driver caused a multi-vehicle accident between Exits 4 and 5.

New Hampshire State Police began receiving calls just before 8:30 p.m. for a wrong-way driver that got on the highway coming from Hudson. Troopers rushed towards the areas where the vehicle was reported and began to receive calls about a collision.

The woman drove more than four miles traveling north in the southbound lane. Upon impact with the first vehicle, several cars tried to avoid the wrong-way vehicle. One vehicle landed on top of a motorcycle that had slid across the roadway after being hit.

Nashua Fire Rescue and AMR rushed to the scene with multiple ambulances based on the initial reports. Nashua Police were asked to shut down the highway and directed people off the highway north of the exit.

The motorcycle operator was removed from under the car, and medics provided medical care. A trauma alert was requested at a local hospital due to the trauma from the collision.

Firefighters and medics evaluated several people directly involved in the crash and several witnesses who were visibly upset. All occupants of the other vehicles refused medical transport from the scene.

State Police interviewed the wrong-way driver, and a short time later, she was handcuffed and transported from the scene by a trooper. State police said charges are forthcoming.

State police are investigating the accident, and additional information is expected later when we will update.

In April a woman driving the wrong way in the same area seriously injured several people.

Early Sunday morning a 22-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Main Dunstable Road in Nashua.

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