The wrong‑way crash that killed Massachusetts State Police Trooper Kevin Trainor last week happened during the same overnight hours when most wrong‑way incidents on the state’s highways occur — a pattern the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) has documented for more than a decade.
Trainor, 30, was killed on May 6 while responding to a 911 call for a wrong-way driver on the northbound side of Route 1 in Lynnfield. The crash between him and the driver happened at around 1 a.m. — the same hours that the majority of wrong-way driving incident violations have been recorded on MassDOT-controlled highways in the past decade.
Of the thousands of wrong-way violations over the past decade, most have occurred late at night and in the early morning — far outpacing those during the day…