A Massachusetts State Police Trooper successfully stopped a wrong-way driver who was charged with operating under the influence, putting his cruiser between the suspect’s pickup truck and the motoring public in the early morning hours on Sunday.
“I want to commend this brave Trooper’s swift action to put himself in harm’s way in order to protect the traveling public from an impaired wrong-way driver in the middle of the night,” Massachusetts State Police Colonel Geoffrey Noble said. “It’s situations like this that remind us all of the dangers of impaired driving and the potential consequences to our law enforcement professionals and the public. If it weren’t for this Trooper’s courage we may have had a tragic outcome.”
At approximately 12:45 AM on November 1, Troopers from the State Police Sturbridge Barracks responded to multiple 911 calls reporting a wrong-way driver on Interstate 395 in Oxford. The initial investigation also found that the reported pickup truck had hit two vehicles in a fast-food restaurant parking lot before driving north into the southbound lanes of the highway at Exit 7…