Tag: accident
Borough gazebo victim of hit-and-run
NAUGATUCK — The gazebo on the Town Green sustained $1,000 to $1,500 worth of damage after a truck or SUV slammed into it sometime...
Woman ejected from moving car on Route 8
NAUGATUCK — A Derby woman sustained severe head injuries after she was ejected from a moving vehicle on Route 8 and was struck by...
Update: Route 8 reopens after accident
SEYMOUR -- Route 8 north has been reopened near Exit 22.
A tractor trailer overturned this morning between Exits 22 and 23 on Route 8...
Waterbury cops: Medical problems cause fast-food drive-thru crash
WATERBURY -- A Beacon Falls man had medical difficulties as he was entering the Burger King drive-thru on Thomaston Avenue shortly after 6 p.m....
Driver knocks out power, charged with DWI
NAUGATUCK – An alleged drunk driver took out a pole and much of the electric grid near Rubber Avenue early this morning.
Hannah Toth, 23,...
Joint boards approve purchase of new ‘jaws of life’
NAUGATUCK — There was never a question over whether the borough needed to replace its aging hydraulic rescue tools known as the “jaws of...
Wrong-way driver injures members of borough family
A Naugatuck family survived a head-on collision with a wrong-way driver on Route 8 late Sunday night.
Police say 59-year-old Jonathan Whitlock was driving his...
Teen driver charged in December accident
NAUGATUCK — Police have charged a 16-year-old driver in connection with in a car-pedestrian accident on New Haven Road in December.
The 16-year-old was charged...
Crash on I-84 kills Naugatuck woman
A Naugatuck woman was killed and two others were hospitalized after a five-car accident Sunday morning on I-84 in Southington.
Three cars and a U-Haul...
Mock crash delivers real lesson for Woodland students
BEACON FALLS — Every Woodland student who enjoyed last weekend’s senior prom made it safely back to school this week, perhaps thanks in part to an experience they shared the day before prom.
Last Thursday, senior Cal Brennan staged a program for his senior project in advance of the prom to warn fellow students about the dangers of drinking and driving.
But it wasn’t just any program—Brennan organized a mock three-car accident complete with actors, police, fire and ambulance personnel and apparatus, vehicle extrications, a funeral director and a Life Star helicopter. 
