Connecticut Fatal Accidents

MANCHESTER - Police identified the 83-year-old Manchester woman who died after a crash on East Center Street on Tuesday. Hinda Handschu may have suffered a medical emergency before the crash, ...[...]

The Jude Lane overpass over Interstate 84 in Southington, now renamed in honor of Trooper Aaron Pelletier. SOUTHINGTON, CT - The Jude Lane overpass on ...[...]

WINCHESTER, Connecticut - A Winsted man died after hit and run crash Saturday afternoon. Police said Steven Gibbons, 67, of Winsted died from his injuries. Police said they were called at 2:42 p.m. to ...[...]

An 83-year-old died after a crash on Tuesday in Manchester, police said. The crash took place around 7:26 a.m. in the area of 186 East Center St. Police determined that ...[...]

WINCHESTER, Connecticut - A Winsted man died after hit and run crash Saturday afternoon. Police said Steven Gibbons, 67, of Winsted died from his injuries. Police said they were called at 2:42 p.m. to ...[...]

Winchester police say they are investigating the cause of a fatal accident involving a bicycle. Police responded to the area of 143 North Main Street around 2:24 p.m. for a bicyclist who may have been ...[...]

In May 2024, Pelletier was fatally struck by a pickup truck while doing a traffic stop on Interstate 84 in Southington, the town where he lived.[...]

A Connecticut man and woman were killed in two separate crashes involving tractor-trailers on I-95 on Friday morning.[...]

A highway bridge near the scene of a hit-and-run that killed a state trooper last year was named for the fallen law enforcement official on Friday afternoon. The Jude Lane overpass was dedicated to ...[...]

Two people were killed Friday in separate crashes on Interstate 95, including a four-car pileup that began after large amounts of plywood boards fell from a tractor-trailer, officials said. The first ...[...]

Oyola-Sanchez was sentenced to 18 years in prison on April 29 after pleading guilty to first-degree manslaughter, a sentence Pelletier's fellow troopers and his widow, Dominique Pelletier, decried as ...[...]

MIDDLETOWN - Police identified a man from Unionville as the person who died after he was struck by a motorist on Tuesday . The man was identified as 36-year-old Samuel Schrader, of Unionville, which ...[...]

According to police, 40-year-old William Kundert was driving erratically and had fentanyl and other drugs in his blood when his Ford F-600 hit a Honda Civic on Route 8 in February 2024, killing a ...[...]

NEW HAVEN - City police have identified the two people who were killed in a fiery crash on Ella Grasso Boulevard on early Sunday morning, officials said. The New Haven Police Department identified the ...[...]

It's unclear if the wire fell on him or if he stepped on it by mistake.  The Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled his death an accident. Lovello said last week the case remains under ...[...]

A Connecticut community is rallying around a family who lost their father in a fiery head-on collision as he drove home from work last week. Venancio Papalotzi-George, 46, was on Route 66 in ...[...]

Today marks one year since a boat crashed into the breakwall at the mouth of the Connecticut River, killing three people on board.[...]

The Connecticut State Police responded to 282 crashes over Labor Day weekend with one fatality and two involving serious injuries. A head-on collision on Route 66 in Middlefield late Friday night ...[...]

New Haven police Tuesday identified one of the two people killed after their vehicle struck a tree and caught fire early Sunday morning. The man was identified as ...[...]

The traffic devices have slowed down drivers and lessened serious injury crashes and fatalities, the police chief said.[...]

Connecticut State Police have identified a driver who died in a head-on crash on Route 66 in Middlefield on Friday night.[...]

First responders were called to the area of Berkshire Road just west of its intersection ... is a breaking news reporter for Hearst Connecticut Media Group. He was previously a reporter for the ...[...]

A motorcyclist has died after a crash with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 10 near Rose City. Derrick Brockington, 47, of Connecticut, has been identified as the man killed in the crash. RELATED: ...[...]

A man faces charges in connection with a snowy head-on crash in Durham in January that killed an 86-year-old man and seriously injured his wife. Nevin Moore, 22, was arrested Wednesday on charges of ...[...]

ROSE CITY, Texas - A motorcyclist died Thursday after crashing into the back of an 18-wheeler on Interstate 10 in Rose City. Orange County Justice of the Peace Hershel Stagner Jr. pronounced the man ...[...]

A local man was arrested Wednesday for his role in in a January crash on Route 17 that killed one person and injured another, police said. Nevin Moore, 22, of Durham, was charged with misconduct with ...[...]

PORTLAND - The victim of a fatal crash on Route 17 over the weekend has been identified as a Meriden woman, Portland police said. Portland police officer Paul Liseo identified the victim of the ...[...]

PORTLAND, CT (WFSB) - Portland police identified the victim of a deadly crash that happened over the weekend. They said the woman who died was 29-year-old Abigail Rose Mann of Meriden. Officers were ...[...]

A Guilford firefighter died following a crash on Interstate 95 in Guilford on Friday night, according to Connecticut State Police, and the town is mourning. Police identified the man as 32-year-old ...[...]

According to CBS19 crews on scene, the reported head-on collision occurred at the intersection of Hwy. 110 S. and CR 2197.[...]

By all accounts, Mary Cordero's future was full of promise. That future was tragically cut short when the 19-year-old Western Connecticut State University junior died in a car crash over the weekend.[...]

It's disgusting to think that's the most she can get," Andrew DiDomenico's mother said of the five-year sentence cap.[...]

The woman who ran off a highway ramp in Wallingford while drunk in June 2024, killing a state Department of Transportation worker on a trash cleanup detail, pleaded guilty to two crimes Friday and ...[...]

Four other people were injured in the single-car crash, two of them sustaining critical injuries, police said.[...]