Overview
- The electric car, which struck the northbound Bedford Toll Plaza Tuesday just before noon, ignited and left the lone driver seriously hurt.
- A state trooper assigned to Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s security detail pulled the driver from the burning vehicle, with Ayotte and bystanders assisting, and the driver was taken to Elliot Hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries.
- Northbound lanes of the Everett Turnpike closed and traffic was routed off Exit 13 during the response, and by late afternoon most lanes had reopened with at least one lane still closed as crews assessed damage.
- State police said the vehicle was a 2026 Lucid electric car with Massachusetts plates, and firefighters used a tarp as they worked to control the hard-to-extinguish blaze.
- The crash follows a rollover at the same plaza on Sunday that led to an aggravated DWI charge, and the site’s history of severe collisions has spurred a $16 million project to replace booths with open-road tolling by fall 2027.