Weekend crashes claim 5 in state Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: PETER GOONAN HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, MA – The three-day New Year’s weekend, which turned suddenly warm and wet Sunday, returned last night to the cold of the past month, leaving roadways icy. Local and state highway departments, which were kept busy Saturday and Sunday with plowing […]
Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: HOWARD DUPUIS GOSHEN, MA – Two people died in separate accidents in Western Massachusetts yesterday, as rain, sleet and snow put a dangerous glaze on the region’s roads, and thick fog and holiday traffic made for treacherous traveling throughout the day. One of the fatal accidents occurred in Amherst, the other in […]
Source: Union-News (Springfield, MA) Author: MIKE PLAISANCE GOSHEN, MA – Traffic accidents in Hampshire County have claimed two lives so far this holiday weekend. The wife of a University of Massachusetts teaching assistant was killed yesterday afternoon when the car in which she was a passenger swerved into the opposite lane and collided with a pickup […]