Crime & Safety
Two Accidents In Portsmouth Saturday Morning
Rescue workers responded to two accidents within half an hour on Saturday morning.
PORTSMOUTH, RI — Rescue workers responded to two car accidents on Saturday morning. First, a head-on collision injured two drivers around 10:30 a.m. on Anthony Road near Common Fence Point. One driver went to Rhode Island Hospital, and the other was taken to Newport Hospital, Lt. Dominic Lautieri said.
Then at 11 a.m., a minor accident on West Main Road sent one person to Newport Hospital as a precaution. That crash happened across from Melville School.
Bristol, Middletown and Tiverton provided mutual aid.
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Information was not immediately available about the conditions of the drivers in the head-on collision.
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Staff Photo Caption: Police directing traffic at the scene of the minor accident on West Main Road on Saturday morning.
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