Video captured by a gas station’s surveillance camera shows a car traveling south in the northbound lane of Route 1 early Sunday morning, minutes before police say the driver hit a state trooper’s cruiser in Peabody, Massachusetts. Both men were injured but have already been released from the hospital.
The driver, Lucas DiBenedetto, is expected to be arraigned on multiple motor vehicle charges and OUI on Tuesday.
In the wake of the second wrong-way crash in the same stretch of highway in the last month, state lawmakers like Senator Bruce Tarr are looking to do more to prevent wrong-way driving. The other wrong-way crash on May 6 killed Trooper Kevin Trainor and the driver who hit him…