Life threatening injures are suspected in a 4-vehicle crash on I-84 in Danbury yesterday afternoon. State Police are looking for any witness to the collision that happened Westbound just before exit 1, around 2:15pm yesterday.
Four vehicles were in the right lane when traffic began to slow for congestion. A freightliner truck collided into the back of a car, which rolled down the right shoulder embankment and came to an uncontrolled rest against a tree. The truck continued on the roadway, rear ending the two more vehicles in a chain reaction crash.
The truck driver, 54-year old Jon Parker of Maine, didn't suffer any apparent injury. The drivers of the two other vehicles, didn't sustain injury either. A passenger in one, an 80-year old New Jersey woman, was transported to Danbury Hospital with suspected minor injuries.
There were three people in the SUV that left the roadway and rolled over. The driver, a 32 year old Carmel man, and a passenger sustained minor injuries. Another passenger, 41-year old Mahopac woman, sustained suspected serious injuries.
I-84 was closed until about 8:45pm.