Man Seriously Injured When Struck By Car On Salem Road
State Police investigating cause of accident.
State Police are investigating the cause of an accident on Salem Road Tuesday night that left a pedestrian with life-threatening injuries. The victim, identified only as a 67-year-old man, was walking along Salem Road near the Wilmington town line just before 6:30 p.m. when he was struck by a car driven by a 24-year-old female. According to a Wilmington Police officer at the scene, the driver struck the man, continued about 50 yards and stopped. The victim sustained a serious head injury and other injuries as a result of the accident and a medflight was requested, according to a Tewksbury Police report. At about 7 p.m., the victim was being transported to the helicopter, which landed at the parking lot of the former Rite Aid on Main Street…
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Lori
5:29 pm on Saturday, February 9, 2013
I hope the pedestrian is OK, and also the driver as the witness said she as well was traumatized. I lived in South Tewksbury for many years and was actually stopped by the police for going 32 mph on that road, just 2 miles over the speed limit. I traveled that road to work every day and it's a very windey road but I was always aware it was policed aggresively. Maybe things changed due to reduced … more ›