Two People Taken To Backus Hospital After Attempting to Enter I-395 After Police Chase

This article was published on: 05/22/17 4:18 AM by Mike Minarsky

A car crashed resulting in 2 people being taken to Backus Hospital Sunday evening.  The car, a red 4 door sedan was attempting to enter the northbound entrance to I-395 in Yantic where it crashed following a police pursuit.   According to police, the accident happened after the pursuit had terminated.

2 of the occupants had to be extricated from the vehicle and were taken with serious injuries. It’s being reported that it took 35-40 minutes to get the passengers out of the car.

Names have not been released and a Norwich Police accident reconstruction team is on scene and continuing with he investigation.

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