Newington Had 25 Injury Crashes In Octoberd

NEWINGTON, CT — A 41-year-old bicyclist was hurt on Route 173 on Oct. 15, one of 25 crashes with injuries police reported in town last month, according to preliminary state crash data.

Nobody was killed or seriously hurt. The crashes injured 30 people: 14 had suspected minor injuries and 16 had possible injuries, according to police reports in the Connecticut Crash Data Repository at UConn.

Newington had 15 injury crashes in October 2025.

The crashes

Twenty-five crashes were reported; the most serious and those involving pedestrians or bicyclists are listed below.

Thursday, Oct. 15, about 6:45 p.m., Route 173 at Alumni Road. A vehicle and a 41-year-old bicyclist collided. It happened after dark. The bicyclist had possible injuries.

The other 24 crashes included four on Route 175, four on Route 15, two on Route 174 and two on the Route 9 Exit 38 ramp. They injured 29 people, 14 with suspected minor injuries and 15 with possible injuries, according to the reports.

The pattern

Ten of the 25 crashes were rear-end collisions, and in nine of them police cited the trailing driver for following too closely. Eleven were angle crashes. Four involved a single vehicle. Nineteen of the 25 happened in daylight, and all in clear or cloudy weather. By road: four on Route 175, four on Route 15, two on Route 174 and two on the Route 9 Exit 38 ramp. No one has been killed in a crash in Newington this year, according to the data.

About the data

These figures are preliminary. Police reports for recent months are still being added to the state database, and counts often rise as they come in. Crashes that damaged only property aren't in the October figures yet, so this story covers crashes with injuries only.

Crash data from the Connecticut Crash Data Repository, University of Connecticut, as of Nov. 13, 2026.