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A police chief walked away from a wreck without any citations, and city leaders kept details of the crash from the public.

On a Saturday night along Route 24, Marie Berthe Francois pulled over in the breakdown lane and flipped on her emergency flashers so she could reset her GPS device. Without warning, a vehicle smashed into her from behind. The impact spun her car around so it was facing in the opposite direction. “The noise was so loud,” Francois recalled. “It…