Bristol rescuers work to reach victim at rollover crash

By Scott Pickerintg
Posted 3/6/18

Bristol rescuers were working to extricate a victim from a horrible rollover crash along Hope Street (Route 114) at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. It appeared that a single vehicle traveling south on Hope …

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Bristol rescuers work to reach victim at rollover crash

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Bristol rescuers were working to extricate a victim from a horrible rollover crash along Hope Street (Route 114) at 10 a.m. Tuesday morning. It appeared that a single vehicle traveling south on Hope Street went out of control just past the Herreshoff Marine Museum dock.

The vehicle struck a tree along the west side of the road, sliced through a yellow pedestrian-crossing sign, then slammed through a utility pole, which split into three pieces, and rolled over a granite public-right-of-way marker near the entrance to Walley Street Beach. The path of the accident was at least 100 feet long, from north to south. The vehicle came to rest on its side as a crumpled mess in the beach parking lot.

Crews had to cut through the vehicle in several directions to get to the person inside.

The top section of the utility pole was dangling across Hope Street, with wires still intact. A large, middle section of the pole was blasted across to the other side of the beach parking lot.

Hope Street was blocked in both directions while police and fire crews worked at the scene.

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