Crime & Safety
Car Jumps Median on Mass Pike in Newton, Hits Tractor Trailer: Traffic Alert
Police are reporting only minor injuries. But watch your commute home.

A car jumped the median on the Mass Pike headed west and hit a tractor trailer heading the other way, causing only minor injuries, but closing two lanes on each side of the Pike, State Police Tweeted out this afternoon. About 15 minutes after they Tweeted the lanes were closed, the Westbound lanes were open again.
Still, watch your commute home.
Troopers onscene, Mass Pike for WB car jumping median and hitting EB tractor-trailer. Minor injury. Two lanes closed on each side.
— Mass State Police (@MassStatePolice) April 27, 2017
Update on Pike crash in Newton -- westbound lanes open, left lane eastbound still closed. #MATraffic https://t.co/lVcPYRriRQ
— Mass State Police (@MassStatePolice) April" class="redactor-linkify-object">https://twitter.com/MassStateP... 27, 2017

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