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From Toilet Paper to PPE: A Closer Look at Price Gouging Complaints During Pandemic
On a snowy day in March, Chris Wiley was traveling on the Massachusetts Turnpike when he said a tractor-trailer started sliding into his lane of traffic near Charlton. Wiley swerved to avoid a collision, lost control of his vehicle and ended up facing the wrong direction on Interstate 90. Within minutes, a tow truck removed his vehicle from the highway. When Wiley showed up at...
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Pandemic Price Gouging
Overcharging customers during the pandemic is illegal in Massachusetts, but hundreds of consumers have complained to the Attorney General’s Office.
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VIDEO: Tow Truck Driver Plunges Into Flooded Sinkhole on Cape Cod
A tow truck driver fell into a flooded sinkhole while trying to tow a car that hit a fire hydrant on Cape Cod early Friday morning. Police said the sinkhole formed sometime before 2:10 a.m. when the car crashed into a fire hydrant on Williams Avenue. The incident caused flooding on the road.
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Tow Truck Driver Falls Into Sinkhole
A tow truck is uninjured after falling into a flooded sinkhole in Bourne
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Tow Truck Driver Accused of Stealing Cars Faces Judge
A Massachusetts tow truck driver pleaded not guilty to charges of larceny of a motor vehicle after allegedly taking cars without permission. Joe Lewis is the owner-operator of All Over Towing in Weymouth. He tows from private lots across Boston’s South Shore. Drivers have lodged complaints with the state’s Department of Public Utilities, the Attorney General’s Office, the Better Business...
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Tow Truck Driver Shares Story of Rescue in Tunnel
A tow truck driver helped save a man in a wheelchair who was on the side of the Mass. Pike in the Prudential Tunnel.
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Tow Truck Driver Helps Rescue Man in Wheelchair in Prudential Tunnel Scare
A tow truck driver is being hailed for protecting a man in a wheelchair who was on the side of the Prudential Tunnel on Interstate 90 in Boston as they waited for first responders to arrive at the scene. State police say they got calls from several drivers reporting a man in a wheelchair on the westbound side of the...
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Drunk Driver Side-Swipes Cruiser, Tow Truck in Hit-and-Run: New Hampshire State Police
A New Hampshire State Police cruiser and tow truck were responding to a motor vehicle stop when they were side-swiped in a hit-and-run crash by another vehicle driven by an alleged DWI driver. Twenty-five-year-old Dover resident Robyn Dubois faces multiple charges, including aggravated driving while intoxicated, according to authorities. Shortly before 1 a.m. on Feb. 5, state troopers conducted a...
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Police: Car With Maine Plates Hit Tow Driver in Peabody, Fled
Massachusetts State Police are investigating a pedestrian hit-and-run crash that left a tow truck driver injured. Police responded shortly before 9 p.m. to Route 128 northbound in Peabody, where the driver was hit outside his truck.
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State Trooper Injured in Highway Crash
A Mass. State Trooper and tow truck driver were struck by a moving vehicle on I-95 northbound in Wakefield on Tuesday morning.
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Trooper, Tow Truck Driver Struck by Vehicle on I-95 in Wakefield, Mass.
One lane is closed on Interstate 95 northbound in Wakefield, Massachusetts, after a Massachusetts State trooper and tow truck driver were hit and injured by a passing vehicle on Tuesday morning. The trooper and driver were taken to Lahey Hospital in Burlington with non-life threatening injuries. The passing vehicle struck a disabled car on I-95 which the two men were...
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Questions Raised After Police Fail to Spot Body After Fatal Crash in Canton
Police continue to investigate a deadly crash in Canton, Massachusetts on Christmas Eve, where authorities say the victim’s body went undiscovered for about an hour. Police said Wednesday that officers responding to the scene found an unoccupied vehicle on Meadows Avenue and thought the driver may have fled.
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Police: Officers Responding to Fatal Crash Fail to Spot Body
Police in Massachusetts are trying to figure out how the body of a man who died in a car crash on Christmas Eve went undiscovered for nearly two hours until a passing motorist spotted him. Police said Wednesday that officers responding to the scene in Canton just after 5 a.m. Monday found an unoccupied vehicle and thought the driver may...
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Couple Saves Neighbor's Home During Gas Explosions
Residents are speaking out after watching the destruction of their communities during the gas explosions in Merrimack Valley.
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Video Captures Stabbing of Tow Truck Driver
A man who allegedly stabbed a tow truck driver after the driver fatally hit his mother has been ordered to undergo psychiatric evaluation. The attack was caught on camera.
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Man Accused of Stabbing Driver in Watertown, Mass. Road Rage Confrontation Undergoing Psychiatric Evaluation
A Massachusetts man has been charged with stabbing a tow truck driver during a chaotic road rage confrontation that started when the driver allegedly struck and killed the suspect’s mother with his vehicle.
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Man Allegedly Stabbed Driver Who Killed His Mother
A woman is dead after being hit by a truck in Watertown, Massachusetts, and that woman’s son has been accused of stabbing the driver five times.
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Police: Tow Truck Driver Tows Car With Child Inside, Abandons Him Nearby
A tow truck driver has been charged with child endangerment after he allegedly towed a car with a child inside, and then abandoned the child.
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Tow Truck Driver Busted for OUI After Responding to Another OUI Call in Barnstable
Massachusetts State Police arrested two people for allegedly driving drunk early Saturday morning on Cape Cod, one of whom was the tow truck driver called to pick up the vehicle of the first suspect.
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Charges Dropped Against Woman Accused of Killing Tow Truck Driver in Crash
Charges have been dropped against a Massachusetts woman who had been accused of driving under the influence in connection with a crash that killed a tow truck driver on Interstate 495 in March.