Overview
- Massachusetts State Police are actively searching for a wrong‑way driver who on the night of July 14 caused two crashes on Interstate 290 West in Northborough and was gone when officers arrived.
- Two drivers swerved to avoid the oncoming car and struck a guardrail, one person was injured and both wrecked vehicles were later towed to a West Boylston yard labeled as '7/14/26 MSP Accident.'
- Local residents and teen eyewitnesses described repeated near‑misses at the Exit 27 ramps and noted a fiery, fatal wrong‑way crash on the same I‑290 stretch about three weeks earlier.
- Separate highway investigations are ongoing after a late‑night fiery crash on I‑495 in Andover killed a 25‑year‑old passenger and a serious crash on I‑95 in Newbury required a medical flight.
- The Essex County district attorney found the Route 1 wrong‑way driver who killed Trooper Kevin Trainor had been served multiple alcoholic drinks, a finding that helped prompt the state’s quicker rollout of detection systems and signage.