Traffic & Transit
Victim ID'd In Large Pike Crash In Blandford
Two tractor-trailers were among four vehicles involved in the overnight crash.
BLANDFORD, MA — A New York man was killed in the four-vehicle crash that injured nine others on the Mass Pike Thursday morning. State police identified the man who died as Robert Epps, 41, of the Bronx.
Police said the crash was at 2:50 a.m. in Blandford when a 54-year-old Portsmouth, R.I., man lost control of a tandem tractor-trailer and crashed into another tractor-trailer being driven by a 55-year-old Buffalo, N.Y., man.
Two other vehicles, a box truck being driven by Epps and a pickup truck being driven by a 55-year-old Houston man, were involved in the crash.
Epps was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. The rest of the people involved, including a passenger in the pickup truck, went to Baystate with minor injuries.
The Pike was closed for about five hours until the left lane reopened around 7:30 a.m. All lanes reopened about an hour later.
No charges have been filed.
