Traffic & Transit
Pickup Runs Over Sign On I-84 In Tolland
The driver and passenger of a pickup truck fled the scene after wrecking a highway sign in Tolland, state police said.
TOLLAND, CT — Authorities had to track down two people from a car that took out a State Department of Transportation road sign during a crash Sunday on Interstate 84 in Tolland, a report indicates.
The crash took place at 6:41 a.m. between exits 67 and 68.
According to a crash report, a Ford F-150 pickup truck was on the eastbound side of the highway. The truck veered off the road, crashed into a DOT road marker sign and struck several small trees, according to a sate police crash report.
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The crash left the truck severely damaged, but when state police arrived at the scene, the occupants were nowhere to be found, according to a crash report. A state police search involving a police dog and help from the Vernon Fire Department could not locate them, state police said.
According to a report, state police learned they had fled the crash scene another vehicle. They were eventually tracked down and the driver, identified as 22-year-old Massimo Sirianni, of Flushing, NY, was charged with evading responsibility. The passenger was listed as a 21-year-old resident of Greenwich.
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Neither was injured, state police said.
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