Traffic & Transit

State Police Seek Witnesses In Q Bridge Wrong-Way Driver Crash

Around 2 a.m. a 2013 Honda driven by a 20-year-old woman traveling the wrong way on the Interstate collided head-on with a tractor trailer.

The Q bridge at night.
The Q bridge at night. (Ellyn Santiago/Patch)

NEW HAVEN, CT —Known as the Q Bridge, the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge was shut down overnight after a wrong-way crash involving a car and tractor trailer, state police said.

Charges are pending, state police said, after a 2013 Honda driven by a 20-year-old Terryville woman collided "head-on" with a tractor trailer around 2 a.m. on the bridge in New Haven. State police said driver Nicole Macao was traveling south on I-95 North just past exit 50.

The driver of the tractor-trailer suffered no injuries, according to the report. Macao and her passenger were taken to Yale New Haven Hospital for non-life threatening injuries, state police said.

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Anyone who may have witnessed the crash are asked to call Connecticut State Police Trooper Farrow at 203-696-2500.

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