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This is one I ran across today and do not have enough information to forward on as a news story. It involves a Tow Truck and a AAA Members death from a gun shot. It is unclear if the tow truck driver was on the scene at the time of the shooting. Since this was likely a regional story perhaps a member has more info. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/mattapan-mother-mourns-daughter-slain-trying-to-buy-used-bmw-in-lowell-murder-suspect-arraigned-in-court/ar-BB17kQ2A
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Tow truck crashes into woods off Route 3 in Duxbury DUXBURY, Mass. — An investigation was underway Christmas Day after a tow truck crash on Route 3 north before Exit 11. The crash happened around 1 a.m. Wednesday. Authorities said the vehicle wound up over the barrier and into the woods. There was no immediate word if anyone was hurt. RESOURCE LINK with video
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It has been reported by Roadside Rescue & Transport of off Massachusetts that they got one of the scariest calls for service that a Tow Truck Driver can receive. To respond to a Motor Vehicle Accident involving a Tow Truck with the reports of the driver down ! Radio reports were that the driver was struck while outside of his truck servicing a vehicle. They stated with lumps in their throats their team responded to the crash involving 4 vehicles. The Tow Truck had been struck from the rear pushing it into the vehicle that the driver was servicing. The Tow Truck driver was hit by the Jack and thankfully only sustained minor injuries. While the …
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Tow truck driver struck by car in Hanson The tow truck driver told police he stopped on the side of the road because of a potential issue with one of the vehicles he was towing. HANSON — A tow truck driver was injured Tuesday afternoon when another driver struck him after he pulled over to check on the vehicles he was towing, police said. Police from Hanson and Halifax responded to a report of a crash involving a pedestrian on Monponsett Street (Route 58) about 12:45 p.m. Officers learned the victim was a 37-year-old Kingston man who is a driver for Bridgewater-based Chuckran Auto Parts. Police say the man pulled…
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MY WORST FEAR REALIZED.... How many times have I preached about entering water? Tow Truck Driver Falls Into Flooded Sinkhole After Car Hits Fire Hydrant There was extensive flooding in Bourne on Friday after a car crashed into a fire hydrant on Williams Ave., subsequently creating a sinkhole. Video shows the tow truck driver attempting to get the car onto a flatbed truck when he accidentally steps into the sinkhole, falling into water up to his neck. The man can be seen grabbing onto the open car door as he struggles to get out of the sinkhole. Police say both the driver and tow driver are unin…
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A 57 year old man was killed while tow truck was preparing to drop vehicle in front of his home. The victim was standing in the street when he was struck by a vehicle which left the scene. The man dead at the scene and that hiy & run vehicle was later found in the driveway of a home nearby. The Tow Truck Driver was not injured in this tragic incident.
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A woman with drive: La Patrona gets towing business running LAWRENCE — Should you car break down somewhere in the Merrimack Valley, a strong-willed young woman may very well be at the wheel of the tow truck that comes to your rescue. Roanny Colon, 33, started doing business a few weeks ago and has already started making her mark on the local scene. A man at Walmart in Methuen was experiencing car trouble and noticed Colon's 2006 International 4300 ramp truck in the parking lot. When he saw Colon seated in the cab, he exclaimed, "Oh my! It's a girl!" Colon recalled he was grateful, however, when she hooked up his …
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Massachusetts State Police said they're investigating after someone caught a photo of a dog chained to the flatbed of a tow truck. WALTHAM, MA — Massachusetts State Police are investigating after local police sent them a photo showing a dog sitting on the back of a Waltham-based tow truck as it drove down Interstate 95 near Totten Pond Road. The photo was shared hundreds of times on social media. "I am so sick to my stomach over this," wrote Stephanie Isaac, who was one of many who posted the image to her account talking about the dog, which appeared chained to the back of a Ramsay's Tow truck. Shortly after, Ramsay's Towing posted a respo…
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‘It was horrible;’ Worcester tow truck driver who moved van with body inside recalls disturbing discovery When Jay Senior pulled his tow truck back into the yard at Early’s on Park Avenue to unload an abandoned blue Chevy van he was moving from a few blocks down the road, he got out to see something unusual. “I got out and about 300 flies came out” of the van, Senior recalled, explaining there was a hand-sized vent on the roof of the van. “The amount of flies in the van was unbelievable. The front windshield was covered.” As the flies cleared the van, Senior smelled something rancid. “It was horrible,” he said. “It’s hard to de…
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06.11.19 - Middleton Fire Department posted on their FB Page: at approximately 1130 the RECC received calls for a car into the pool at 36 Village Road.Crews arrived to find an suv teetering on the edge of the pool. The two occupants had been helped out by bystanders and they were not injured. The vehicle ended up slipping all the way into the pool. Coadys’ wrecker was called to lift the vehicle out of the water. Crews stood by for the removal of the vehicle.The operators from Coadys’ did a great job and made the removal of the vehicle look easy . Luckily there were no injuries, but the pool will be closed for a while. …
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A 41-year-old Ware man who was arrested Tuesday and charged with raping three women in Granby is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at Eastern Hampshire District Court in Belchertown. Arthur Salsbury, of 48 Old Belchertown Road, was arrested by Granby police with assistance from Massachusetts State Police and Ware police, Granby Police Chief Alan Wishart said in a statement posted on the department's website. Wishart said the arrest followed tips his department received after issuing a call earlier this month for the public's help in identifying a tow truck and its operator who was suspected of an assault on March 29 in town. Salsbury …
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Driver Seriously Injured After Head-On Collision With Tow Truck In Saugus A 38-year-old Saugus man was critically injured after a Toyota Camry collided head-on with a flatbed tow truck Tuesday. Police responded to the intersection of Lincoln and Palmer Avenue in Saugus around 12:40 p.m. Firefighters on scene used the jaws of life for 20 minutes in order to extricate the injured driver, the fire department said. He was rushed to Massachusetts General Hospital. According to D&R Towing, one of their truck drivers was involved. The 57-year-old man from Hudson, N.H. was shaken up but okay. The company said the truck driv…
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BOSTON (CBS) — A man in a wheelchair was not hurt after he was spotted in the Prudential Tunnel during rush hour Tuesday morning. State Police said they received multiple calls around 8:15 a.m. about “a man in a wheelchair in the Tunnel/Route 90 west, at the bottom of the Clarendon Street on ramp into the tunnel.” The incident was recorded on MassDOT surveillance video in the tunnel, showing the man in the wheelchair in the right lane, along the right wall as traffic went by him. Eventually, a AAA Tow Truck Driver put on his hazard lights and shielded the man from traffic until first responders arrived. I saw one car flew …
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WEYMOUTH, MASS. (WHDH) - A typical work day took a terrifying turn for a Weymouth tow truck operator Friday, when a driver in the right lane got too close and hit his hand. Christopher Rotz said his hand was clipped by a moving car’s mirror while he was helping a driver on Interstate 93. “I got lucky but people have been hurt way worse,” Rotz said. “People decided not to move over, as usual, it’s very common.” Rotz said the mirror went flying. He eventually picked it up on the side of the road. Rotz said the breakdown lanes are a lot smaller because of the snow and he barely has enough room to load cars. “There was a lo…
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John Stockton of Wareham, who leaves family in Buzzards Bay, died March 3 at home. He was 69. He was the son of the late John and Amy (Denson) Stockton. Mr. Stockton was born in Wareham and lived there for many years. He graduated from Bourne High School in 1967. He was a Navy veteran of the Vietnam War. Mr. Stockton worked as a tow truck driver and auto mechanic for M. Sylvester Towing in Falmouth. He was a fan of the Bruins, Red Sox and Patriots, and enjoyed motorcycles and making models. He leaves seven children, John C. Stockton, Laura Stockton, Christopher J. Stockton, Crystal M. Stockton-Shortel…
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PEABODY, Mass. — A tow truck operator fixing a flat tire on a vehicle that broke down on Route 128 was clipped by a vehicle passing by Friday night. The incident happened around 9 p.m. on the eastbound side of the highway, near Exit 25B for Route 114/Andover Street near the North Shore Mall. Both the tow operator from Gaeta's Towing/AAA and the driver of the broken down vehicle were outside the car on the dark, narrow stretch of the highway, when another vehicle driving down the highway clipped the tow truck operator, pushing him into the driver of the car. The tow truck operator was taken to the hospital to be checked out, but was expected to be OK. …
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During a pat-down of the driver and his belongings, state troopers found drugs inside a backpack. MILFORD, MA- What began as an early morning call for a disabled tow truck on I-495 ended in an arrest and the driver facing drug charges. State troopers responded to a call early Friday morning about a single vehicle crash on I-495 North in Milford. They found a tow truck in the median against a tree and pried open the driver's side door to free the driver, 41-year-old Shawn Mckay. Mckay, of Suncook, New Hampshire, was not injured and refused medical treatment by Milford EMS. The state trooper on scene offered Mckay a seat in her car while …
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A state trooper and a tow truck driver were hospitalized this morning after police said they were struck by a passing vehicle while helping a disabled motorist on Interstate 95 north in Wakefield. The crash occurred just after 6:10 a.m. north of Exit 40. Both are expected to survive. State police spokesman David Procopio said they were outside their own vehicles when they were hit. The vehicle that hit them then struck the tow truck, he said. Procopio said the trooper was able to call in the crash on his radio and report that he and the tow driver needed medical assistance. No charges were immediately pending. ‘The facts and…
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The man who allegedly stabbed the truck driver is believed to be related to the woman who was fatally struck, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said. A flatbed tow truck struck and killed a woman near Watertown Square on Wednesday morning, according to authorities, and then a man allegedly stabbed the driver five times. The alleged stabber, who is believed to be related to the deceased woman, was taken into custody at the scene, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan told reporters Wednesday afternoon. The truck driver was taken to a Boston hospital where he was in critical condition, she said. Ryan said police res…
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This is a true disaster, affecting thousands of people, and not one of my stupid gripes. On Thursday around 4:30-4:45, I was picking up a disabled car on I-495 North in Methuen. I observed a number of police cruisers and fire trucks heading south in a big hurry. My daughter called me and told me that there were a number of natural gas explosions in Andover, North Andover, and South Lawrence (my shop is in North Lawrence, and my daughter works in Andover). So I got off at the next exit to reverse direction. As I drove south, I noticed several plumes of smoke in the sky. I was to deliver the car to an address in South Lawrence, which proved to be tricky. The customer…
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WESTMINSTER, MASS. (WHDH) - A tow truck burst into flames in Westminster late Monday night. A fire sparked on Knower Road just after 11 p.m., fully engulfing the truck. The local tow truck driver was passing through town after towing a vehicle when it caught on fire, police said. The driver was able to safely turn the truck off before firefighters arrived to extinguish the flames. Police say no one was injured. RESOURCE LINK With Video
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RENTON, Wash. – A 50-year-old man was arrested after shooting a tow truck employee from his car on Friday night. The tow truck employee saw the suspect dump trash onto the tow company's property in the 200 block of Rainier Avenue South around 11:00 p.m. When the employee tried to confront the suspect, he drove away, firing two bullets that struck the employee. The employee was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. He has since been treated and released. The trash the suspect left behind was from a nearby restaurant, according to responding officers. Upon going to that restaurant, they discovered video footage showing the suspect an…
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WORCESTER - At 25, Kevin O. Montalvo has already worked for more than a decade, with his latest job towing for Early’s On Park Avenue while caring for his 61-year-old father, who has diabetes and lives with him. Always a fan of trucks, towing cars and drag racing, he started his own towing company a few years ago with the help of his older brother out of his home in Southbridge, where he grew up after he purchased a flatbed for $11,000 while also working in Boston loading and unloading and taxiing airplanes full time for American Airlines. His parents, originally from Puerto Rico, worked in factories most of their lives, he said. Mr. Montalvo’s first job was at …
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An overnight traffic accident in Milford sent three people to a local hospital. MILFORD – Three people were hospitalized after a head-on collision early Saturday morning. Frank Barba, of Milford, and Latisha Seasebey, of Woonsocket, Rhode Island, were in the emergency room at Milford Regional Medical Center as of early Saturday afternoon, according to a hospital spokeswoman. Their ages and conditions were not released. A third person was taken to the hospital by ambulance, police said. No other information was available on that individual. Police say Seasebey was driving a Jeep Cherokee and Barba was in a tow truck that collided at 12:42 a.m. at 90 Bea…
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BOSTON (WHDH) - Delays were reported on the Green Line’s B branch Sunday after a car fell off a tow truck and ended up on the tracks, an official said. The incident, which left a sedan stuck on the tracks, occurred around noon near the intersection of Commonwealth Avenue and Armory Street. An MBTA spokesman said the car had “fallen off a tow truck” and has since been removed. RESOURCE LINK with images
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BRIDGEWATER — The West Bridgewater Fire Department and Massachusetts State Police responded to a car engulfed in flames while being towed on Route 24 North in Bridgewater Thursday morning. While towing the car, an Everett’s Auto Parts tow truck driver noticed smoke coming from the car and pulled over, according to the West Bridgewater Fire Department. “It was being towed. It sounds the like the brakes or something locked up on it. Maybe a mechanical failure that caused it to overheat and catch fire,” said West Bridgewater Fire Chief Kenneth May. After releasing the car from the truck, the driver tried to extinguish the fire but was unsuccessful. Within nine…
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TTLEBORO, Mass. (WPRI) -- A 26-year-old man was killed after crashing into a tow truck in Attleboro early Sunday morning. Investigators say around 2 a.m., an Attleboro Police officer was helping with a disabled vehicle on I-95 South just before exit 1. The officer then called for a tow truck to remove the vehicle. The tow truck arrived and parked in the break down lane to help assist, when it was struck by a vehicle from behind. The driver of the tow truck was not in the vehicle at the time. Troopers from the Foxboro State Police Barracks were called after the crash. When they arrived, they found the operator of the vehicle, identified as 26-year-old Michae…
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The tow truck driver killed while responding to a crash on Interstate 495 will be laid to rest this week. Daniel Coady was a lifelong employee of his family's company, Coady's Garage and Towing. His favorite childhood memories were being in the cab of a truck with his father, Dan Sr., family wrote in his obituary. "He loved being a tow truck driver as much as he loved being a father. He was a member of the Massachusetts Truckers Association," the obituary states. "When he wasn't working he was googling trucks, volunteering his time fishing abandoned cars out of the river for the Merrimack Valley Clean River Project, or could be found just ha…
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Seeking support for its plan to use part of a 24-acre site off the Bridgehampton-Sag Harbor Turnpike in Southampton Town as an impound yard for vehicles seized by its Police Department, Sag Harbor Village dispatched Police Chief Austin J. McGuire and Charles Voorhis, an environmental consultant, to a public hearing before the town’s planning board last Thursday. At the same time, concerned citizens and representatives of conservation groups spoke out against the proposal, which they believe would endanger the neighboring Long Pond Greenbelt. Chief McGuire laid out reasons why the new impound yard, which would entail paving an 80-by-60-foot area for 20 p…
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AAA Driver Helps Elderly Couple Out Of Burning Home GRAFTON (CBS) — A AAA driver is being cited with saving an elderly couple from their burning home in Grafton Wednesday. Norman Strom said he was passing by when he noticed smoke coming out of the garage attached to a Millbury Street home. When he went to alert the people inside, he discovered they didn’t know about the fire yet. “They were sitting on their couch, thinking nothing of it,” he said. Randall Rixham owns the house. He was not home, but his in-laws, both 86-years-old, were. “He knocked on the door, my in-laws had no idea that it was burning, they were at the opposite end of the house,”…
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