NEWBURY, Mass. (Gray News) – A police sergeant has died after a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in Massachusetts on Thursday morning.
Massachusetts State Police said officers responded to a reported Tesla that was traveling the wrong way south on I-95 just after midnight.
WFXT reports that state troopers spotted the wrong-way vehicle driving through the Newburyport area and law enforcement prepared a tire-deflation device in Georgetown.
However, before the Tesla reached the device, it struck a Chevrolet Trailblazer head-on near mile marker 81 in the Newbury area.
The driver of the Trailblazer was identified as Endicott College Police Sgt. Jeremy Cole. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Endicott College Chief of Police Kerry Ramsdell said Cole was driving home early on Thanksgiving morning after working his evening shift.
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