A 26-year-old Massachusetts man was killed in a three-vehicle crash on Route 495.
The crash occurred in Middlesex County around 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 15, at mile marker 84 in Westford.
According to Dave Procopio of the Massachusetts State Police, the crash involved a tractor-trailer that had struck and overrode a Toyota Tacoma pickup truck.
Westford Fire and EMS arrived on-scene and first responders began attempting to extricate the driver of the Tacoma,
The driver, a 26-year-old Essex County resident from Lawrence, was pronounced dead on the scene, Procopio said. The drivers of the other two vehicles were not injured.
A preliminary investigation indicates that a 2012 Volkswagen EOS was northbound in the right lane of Route 495, while a 2014 Freightliner tractor-trailer was northbound in the middle lane. A 2022 Toyota Tacoma was also traveling northbound in the same vicinity.
For reasons still under investigation, the VW struck the front right of the Freightliner, Procopio said.