LAKEVILLE, Mass. (WWLP) – In the eastern part of the state, the Lakeville Fire Department says it was sent to six separate motor vehicle crashes in under 40 minutes on Sunday.
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According to the Lakeville Fire Department, as rain transitioned to snow, road conditions were slushy around noon when the department says the calls started to come in. Fire crews “leapfrogged” from accident to accident with multiple cars off the road.
The first accident happened around 11:47 a.m. on Sunday when a pickup truck went off the road in the area of 72 Precinct Street. While at this accident, calls for multiple crashes on both the north and southbound sides of Rt 140 started to come in.
In total, seven people were evaluated and treated, with one person taken to a local hospital.