Authorities are investigating an incident where a tractor-trailer hit a fire truck in Norton, Massachusetts early Sunday morning.
Mansfield Fire says the engine was struck on 495 Southbound just prior to exit 27 in Norton at around 4:30 a.m.
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Record breaking travel expected after holiday weekend
A record breaking amount of travelers are expected to be on the roads, rails and in the air after 4th of July weekend in the U.S.
AAA is estimating more than 70 million people are traveling 50 miles or more for the long holiday weekend, with the vast majority of them driving home on Sunday.
The busiest travel day of the season may be compounded by yesterday’s AMTRAK shutdown and the ongoing Sumner Tunnel closure.
A power outage forced Amtrak to halt service between Penn Station in New York and South Station for most of the day yesterday. Normal service resumed around 9:45 last night, but this really threw a wrench into people’s travel plans.
“I’m like devastated. Kinda. But I know these things happen and its out of our control but I want to go home. But I gotta go back to where I came from now.” said Marlane Jones
AAA also says the worst time to drive today is between 2 and 8 p.m. The best is before 11 and tomorrow you will want to avoid the roads between 1 and 5 p.m. Better to head out after 7 p.m.
Gas prices are about 3 cents cheaper than this time last year at around $3.50 on average – almost thirty cents less than the gas prices in Newton, MA.
An estimated 3.7 million people are also expected to fly on Sunday and Monday, followed by around 3.5 million flying home on Tuesday, according to Hopper.
Meanwhile, the Sumner Tunnel is closed for the second summer in a row. It shutdown at midnight Friday and will stay that way until August fifth for a $160 million dollar renovation project.
About 39,000 drivers use the tunnel every day, especially people north of the city who need to get to and from Logan Airport. The state’s department of transportation is encouraging people to take public transit instead.
During the shutdown, the T, commuter rail bus and ferry are either discounted or free.
Hot and humid weekend continues in New England
Another mostly cloudy, humid day ahead. Highs in the upper 80s. The next few afternoons will be hot and humid but mainly dry.
Sunday will start foggy and in the mid-70s. Lows stay in the mid-70s through much of this week. The warmest day of t…
1 killed in crash on I-495 near Raynham-Bridgewater line
One person was killed in a single-vehicle crash on Interstate 495 in Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon.
State police said they responded to a report of a crash around 3:18 p.m. on I-495 south prior to Route 24 near the Raynham-Bridgewater li…
Fleeing Massachusetts taxpayers cost state $3.9B in 2022 income, IRS data show
Taxpayers fleeing Massachusetts cost the state roughly $3.9 billion in 2022, placing it fifth in the country for loss of “adjusted gross income” due to domestic migration, behind just California, New York, Illinois, and New Jersey.
Humid Saturday brings pop up showers in New England
Another humid day is expected across the region with lots of cloud cover and the threat for showers and storms ‘popping up’ much of this afternoon courtesy of a stalled frontal boundary over New England.
A First Alert has been issued to…
