Vehicles — Including Police Car — Crash On Snowy Roads In Mansfield

MANSFIELD, CT — Vehicles hit a pole, a wall and a bus stop shelter on snowy roads in Mansfield Sunday, state police said. One was a state police cruiser.

State police released reports on all three instances to begin the week.

The first took place at 3:36 p.m. A 1998 Toyota Avalon was headed north on Route 195 when when the driver, a 29-year-old Willington resident, tried to turn right into the Cumberland Farms parking lot, according to a crash report. The car then ran over a traffic island slammed into a CT Transit bus stop shelter 40 feet away, according to a crash report.

No one was hurt and the driver was cited for failure to drive right, state police said.

About five hours later, a 21-yer-old Bridgeport man was in a Mercedez-Bens C43 was traveling west on North Eagleville Road when he lost control at the Bone Mill Road intersection and whacked a street sign, according to a crash report.

No one was hurt, but the driver was given a ticket for traveling too fast for conditions.

At 9:47 p.m., a state trooper in an assigned cruiser was headed west on Elizabeth Road near the intersection of Brookside Lane, according to a crash report.

The cruiser, slid tghr0ugh the intersection and hit a wooden pole, damaging the vehicle's side, according to a crash report.

No one was hurt.