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Flames burst from the cab of a truck pulled over on the highway Friday.

Flames were seen pouring from a truck on Interstate 95 in Waltham, Massachusetts, on Friday afternoon. The truck was pulled into the breakdown lane and traffic was passing alongside as smoke billowed from the cab. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was hurt. A person was seen standing behind the burning vehicle. The scene of the fire was cleared after…

A Rhode Island man faced a judge after a fatal crash that left three people hurt on I-95 in North Attleboro.

The driver accused of causing a deadly car crash on Interstate 95 in North Attleborough, Massachusetts, on Monday appeared in court Tuesday, where prosecutors said he was seen shrugging before leaving the scene. Joseph Pompei Jr., a 50-year-old from Cranston, Rhode Island, was arrested later Monday on charges including motor vehicle homicide over the crash, which left a man dead,…

An arrest has been made in a deadly hit-and-run crash that took place Monday afternoon on I-95 in North Attleborough

A man died from his injuries in a three-vehicle highway crash Monday in North Attleboro, Massachusetts, and another driver who allegedly fled the scene has been arrested. The crash around 4:15 p.m. closed down the northbound side of Interstate 95. State police say a 50-year-old man from Cranston, Rhode Island, was driving southbound in a Buick LaCrosse when he collided…

A driver was seriously hurt and their vehicle caught fire, spreading flames to a U-Haul storage building, on Interstate 95 in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, early Tuesday morning, police said. A charred pickup truck remained at the scene and clouds of smoke billowed from the building during the fire, NBC affiliate WJAR reported. The driver was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital…

One person is dead and another is in custody after a crash on Interstate 95 in the Danvers-Boxford area Friday afternoon, according to Massachusetts authorities. State police said the crash took place in Danvers, while the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said the crash was in Boxford. Three vehicles were involved in the chain-reaction crash, MassDOT said. One of the vehicles…

It should come as no surprise to any Boston driver that bumper-to-bumper traffic is back. Not that Boston traffic was ever pleasant, but years of many companies allowing remote work during the pandemic did ease the load on many highways. Workers have been steadily returning to the office, however, and traffic is on the rise — in some parts of…

A large brush fire burning near Interstate 95 in Reading, Massachusetts, on Wednesday closed a pair of ramps to the highway as well as a nearby road, police said. Firefighters from Reading and Stoneham were working to put out the blaze near the intersection of I-95 and Massachusetts Route 28, which is also Reading’s Main Street, according to Reading police….

A truck rolled over on Interstate 95 in Lexington, Massachusetts, Monday, causing injuries and snarling traffic, police said. It wasn’t immediately clear how many injuries the crash caused. Massachusetts State Police said the crash, involving a truck carrying rocks on the northbound side of the highway, closed all but two lanes of traffic in both directions. The crash took place…

A person was found dead in the woods near Interstate 95 in Weston, Massachusetts, Friday, police said. Information on the person’s death, including who they were and how they died, wasn’t immediately available. The area where the body was found, which appeared to be a few hundred feet from the highway, may have been the site of an encampment...

A crash that involved multiple vehicles closed a lane of traffic on Wednesday morning on Interstate 95 south in Peabody, Massachusetts, according to the state’s department of transportation. The crash, which caused injuries, happened in the area of Exit 62. The left lane was closed as of 9:15 a.m., according to MassDOT. Aerial footage showed a crashed truck in the…

Footage from the scene showed sand spilled across much of the southbound side of the highway.

A truck carrying sand rolled over on the ramp from Interstate 93 north to I-95 south, closing the ramp for cleanup as well as two lanes of I-95 south, Massachusetts State Police said. The driver of the tractor-trailer was thrown from the crash and hurt, but expected to survive, police said. Footage from the scene showed sand spilled across much…

MassDOT says a similar number of people drive into Boston each day as before the pandemic, but a change in people’s driving habits has caused a big shift in when gridlock happens.

Since the pandemic, Highway Administrator Jonathan Gulliver says, we’re seeing shifts in when, where and who is commuting.

A car crash on U.S. Route 1 caused serious injuries, knocked down utility wires and closed more than one highway in Dedham, Massachusetts, near Westwood on Monday, officials said. The crash took place at the intersection of Route 1, which was closed in both directions, and Interstate 95, which was closed southbound, according to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. They…

In an effort to curb wrong-way crashes, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation is now installing wrong-way driver detectors on more than a dozen highway lanes and ramps across the state this week.

This week, there will be overnight lane and ramp closures on some highways, as crews work to install the systems.