Crime & Safety

Fatal Crash on Mass. Pike In Hopkinton Kills North Shore Man

The two right lanes were closed down around 6 p.m.

HOPKINTON, MA—A crash on the Mass. Pike in Hopkinton killed a North Shore man on Wednesday night, according to multiple reports.

Mass. State Police said that the man was killed after his car slammed into the rear of a tractor-trailer in the eastbound land west of I-495 around 6:30 p.m. A Jeep Liberty driven by the 30-year-old man from Beverly hit the rear of a tractor-trailer driven by a 42-year-old man from Quebec.

The man was extricated from his vehicle and he was pronounced dead from the injuries in the crash.

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Earlier, MSP reported that a crash with "serious injury" occurred on the Mass. Pike east bound just west of I-495.

The right two lanes were closed.

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