On Thursday, June 4, two women were sent to hospital with serious injuries following an accident on the Interstate 95.
According to state police, the two women exited their vehicle after it caught fire on the I 95 on the northbound side of the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge at around 10.15 p.m. They were standing behind their car in the right lane of the Interstate when an unidentified man stopped to help and parked his Ford truck behind them with his hazard flashers and he tried to put out the fire. Then a Subaru driven by 19 year old Jack Charles Tiernan, of Branford, who was also traveling north in the right lane crashed into the truck from behind and the impact pushed the truck into the woman and pinned them to a Jersey barrier.
New Haven firefighters had to extricate the women and they were conscious when transported to Yale – New Haven hospital with leg injuries. Tiernan also was taken to the same hospital with minor injuries and later discharged.
Police say he was issued an infraction for failure to drive in an established lane.
The women, who were a 27 year old from Kingston, Rhode Island and a 26 year old from Brattleboro, Vermont are both said to be in fair condition.
The crash remains under investigation.
If you have suffered serious injuries as a result of an auto accident, please call our Connecticut I-95 accident attorneys at Hastings, Cohan, and Walsh, LLP, at (888) 244-5480 or contact us online today.
