Crime & Safety
Police: Operator of Overturned Truck at Rotary Driving too Fast
The following information was supplied by the Braintree Police Department. Where arrests or charges are mentioned, it does not indicate a conviction.
The driver of a Ryder box truck that rolled over at the Union Street Rotary Friday afternoon, causing major traffic delays in the area, has been cited for speeding and operating to endanger.
An initial investigation showed that the operator was driving too fast to navigate the rotary, Police Chief Russell Jenkins said in a statement. The driver, a 23-year-old Braintree man, was not named because he had not been charged with a crime.
He was found unconscious in the truck Friday and was extricated by Braintree firefighters and Fallon Ambulance medics. The truck was found lying on its passenger side, half on the sidewalk and half in the road.
The driver was brought to South Shore Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and the truck was righted towed, Jenkins said.
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