I-95 N In Fairfield Re-Opened After Fatal Crash - Hartford Courant
Later in the morning, another man died in a separate car-tractor trailer collision on Black Rock Turnpike, police said. In the first crash, Demonte Anozine, 20, died when he was thrown from the 2002 Mazda Protégé in the crash, which happened shortly before 3:10 a. m. in the northbound lanes, south of Exit 23, police said. The driver, Amairani Cuevas of Ogden Street, and another passenger, Kastiry Marid Collazo of Park Street, both 19 and from Bridgeport, sustained what police called minor injuries and were taken to hospitals. King, 56, of Messina Drive in East Haven, the driver of the other car, 1998 Honda Accord , also was taken to a hospital for a possible injury, police said. According to police, King was driving north in center of three lanes, and Cuevas was in the left lane when Cuevas veered into the center lane and sideswiped King's Honda, then struck a guardrail and crashed down an embankment, hitting trees. Cuevas and Collazo were taken to St. Vincent's Medical Center and Bridgeport Hospital, respectively. As for the victims who survived, "Our firefighters and the medics from AMR worked together to provide exceptional emergency medical care to the victims and to rapidly extricate them from a very heavily damaged vehicle," he said. Source: www.courant.com
