STRATFORD -
A man was killed and four people were injured early Saturday on I-95 south when a car slammed head-on into a car that had just been in a minor accident and was facing the wrong way in a travel lane, state police said.
Stephen Smith, the driver of the disabled car, and his passenger Thomas Sparks, had just exited their vehicle and were standing in back of it when the collision occurred, pushing the vehicle into the two men, both 56 and from Bridgeport.
Smith was fatally injured. Sparks was brought to Bridgeport Hospital for treatment of what police called non-life-threatening injuries. The three people in the vehicle that struck Smith's vehicle had minor injuries, police said.
Police closed all lanes of the interstate for more than two hours while they investigated, helped the injured and cleared the scene. Anyone with information about the accidents is asked to call state police Troop G at 203-696-2500.
-- Bill Leukhardt
Stephen Smith, the driver of the disabled car, and his passenger Thomas Sparks, had just exited their vehicle and were standing in back of it when the collision occurred, pushing the vehicle into the two men, both 56 and from Bridgeport.
Smith was fatally injured. Sparks was brought to Bridgeport Hospital for treatment of what police called non-life-threatening injuries. The three people in the vehicle that struck Smith's vehicle had minor injuries, police said.
Police closed all lanes of the interstate for more than two hours while they investigated, helped the injured and cleared the scene. Anyone with information about the accidents is asked to call state police Troop G at 203-696-2500.
-- Bill Leukhardt
