An employee of Michael’s Towing examines damage to one of the company’s trucks after it was involved in a four vehicle crash on Russell Road Thursday evening. (Photo by Carl E. Hartdegen
WESTFIELD – Two city residents were transported to Noble Hospital after a head-on crash on Russell Road last night but both escaped serious injury.
City police said that multiple callers reported the four vehicle crash starting at 5:14 p.m. and Sgt. Jeffrey Baillargeon was first to arrive at the crash site.
Baillargeon said at the scene of the crash that a westbound vehicle, a 2013 Ford Escape SUV, had turned left into the operator’s driveway but entered the path of an eastbound vehicle, a tow truck.
The two vehicles collided, head-on, causing the SUV to spin around and strike the westbound vehicle which had been behind it, a 2008 Ford Edge.
That vehicle then left the roadway but the operator was not injured.
In addition, a small pickup truck which the tow truck had been pulling struck the rear of the towing vehicle.
The operator of the SUV, Flora A. Tritscher of 20 Russell Road, was transported to Noble Hospital by Fire Department ambulance as was the operator of the Michael’s Towing tow truck, Timothy L. Hiner of 54 Meadow Street.
A hospital spokesperson reports both victims were treated and released at the hospital.
Both the SUV and the tow truck were towed to the police impound yard.
