A police officer has died after he was involved in a wrong-way crash on a Massachusetts highway early on Thanksgiving morning.
Endicott College Police Sgt. Jeremy Cole was “driving home early” on Thursday, Nov. 28 after a shift on campus when his Chevrolet Trailblazer was struck head-on on the northbound side of Interstate 95 in Newbury, according to a statement from Endicott College Chief of Police Kerry Ramsdell.
Members of the Newbury Fire Department (NFD) responded to the scene near Exit 81 on Interstate 95 just after midnight and found the sole occupants of the vehicles “trapped inside,” according to a news release from the department.
Massachusetts State Police (MSP) said before the crash, officers had tried to stop a white Tesla heading south on the northbound side of the highway before the vehicle collided with Cole’s car, according to ABC affiliate WCVB.
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