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At least one person is killed after fuel tanker EXPLODES on Connecticut bridge.
A fiery crash on the Gold Star Bridge in Groton Friday has shut down Interstate 95.
State police said a fuel tanker rolled over, sparking a massive fire around 11:30 a.m. Authorities said the fire spread to buildings below the bridge.
Injuries are reported, but state police did not elaborate on how many people are injured or the extent of their injuries.
Northbound lanes of I-95 have been reopened, but the southbound lanes remain closed as of 12:50 p.m. Friday. 🤔
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Popeye's Now Open at Madison, CT Rest Stop
Popeye’s Now Open at Madison, CT Rest Stop
Postcard sent to local residents with coupons for chicken.
Postcard sent to local residents showing map of facility in relation to Route 450 (Hammonasset Connector), New Road, and Duck Hole Road. The street address, 1 South St., is incorrect.
Fried chicken, crispy chicken tenders, shrimp, and Mardi Gras Cheesecake now greet travelers at the new Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen restaurantin Madison. It…
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the last time i drove to maine by myself i made a mistake.
i’ve been driving up to maine either with my whole family or by myself for over two decades. i know it’s just under 500 mi and takes about eight hours. i know how to get there without a gps (i still have it on because fuck the cops). i know when to leave so i don’t hit any traffic. i know that there is a stretch in new haven that is always under construction in a way that’s almost comforting. i know what i’m doing and how to do it. the last time i went up i made a mistake.
there are a series of large rest stops in southern massachusetts. if you time it right in either direction you stop at charlton (right over the line from connecticut) to get gas and pee and walk the dog and keep it moving. i know to stop there. but that time i didn’t. in my arrogance over the lack of traffic and where my gas was at i forgot that the series of stops are only on the southbound side. i was heading north where there was only charlton. i missed my chance and the next rest stop wasn’t until maine.
i didn’t realize my mistake at first. it wasn’t until i passed three southbound rest stops with no northbound corresponding stop that i realized i was in deep shit. i knew that there wasn’t a stop in new hampshire. i knew the next stop would be in maine. i knew i didn’t have enough gas to get there. i knew the dog was getting antsy. i knew my bladder was getting ready to burst from the steady stream of iced coffee i was consuming. i had to get off. i didn’t have a choice.
i got off at some barely marked exit in northern massachusetts right before the new hampshire line. i didn’t know where i was. i had to pee so bad by then that i didn’t have the brain power to search for a gas station. but there’s always a gas station somewhere near a highway exit so i followed a car until we passed one. it was close. closer than i ever should have let it get. i knew better.
the 2016 election was our charlton. we should have stopped there and fueled up and kept it moving. we should have cut trump off at the pass and dealt with our issues after that threat was gone. but we didn’t. we thought there would be more stops. more options going forward.
on november third we will have two choices: we can keep going at the untenable speed we’re moving and ignore the dropping gas indicator. we can lie to ourselves that we're going to make it to the nice, safe, easy stop in maine. that everything will be fine if we keep going. it won’t. we’ll break down and be all alone on the side of 95 in a heat wave with a worried dog and a tow truck hours away.
or. we can get off at the weird exit. it won’t be as smooth or easy or safe as a designated rest area. we won’t know where we’re going. the indicator will continue dropping while we drive around trying to find a gas station. we’ll be worried and scared and regretful because we knew better and we should have never let it get this dire. but here we are. getting off gives us a chance. we need to give ourselves a fighting chance. there is too much on the line to allow our hubris to let us careen forward without getting off. we need to get off.
biden wasn’t my first choice. harris wasn’t my first choice. he wasn’t the person i gave money to. he wasn’t who i voted for in the primary. but we need to get off before it’s too late. and make no mistake. if we do not get off now it will be too late. too late for the republic. too late for the planet. we need to get off. be a voter. save america.
#hmmm this is much longer than i intended.#the thing about long road trips by yourself is you have time with your thoughts and you get to be philosophical
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Wintry weather lingers in coastal New England
The snowstorm that never seems to end rocked coastal New England at the height of the morning commute, prompting schools to close and causing air travel havoc
December 3, 2019, 2:59 PM
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The snowstorm that never seems to end rocked coastal New England at the height of the morning commute on Tuesday, prompting schools to close and causing air travel havoc.
The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for coastal areas of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine and a winter weather advisory for southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island, though the storm was expected to taper off by early afternoon.
The wintry weather that moved into New England on Sunday night has already dropped more than two feet of snow in some areas of central Massachusetts, and 16 inches in Somers, Connecticut.
In Warwick, Rhode Island, where residents were digging out from 4 inches of fresh snow, Doreen Goy worked a snowblower with steely determination and a singular focus: getting in a workout.
“I need to get to the gym,” she said as she cleared a sidewalk in front of her home.
The Boston area had only about four inches of snow, but the weather made for a messy commute. A jackknifed tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 in Sharon blocked all southbound lanes, causing backups. The highway has since reopened.
In Massachusetts, Republican Gov. Charlie Baker urged people to work from home if possible and delayed the start of the work day for non-essential state employees by two hours.
In Maine, Democratic Gov. Janet Mills originally delayed the opening of state offices, then announced that they’d be closed altogether because of the storm.
In New York City, hundreds of Brooklyn households were without power because of outages caused by manhole fires overnight. A Consolidated Edison spokesman attributed the fires to snow-melting salt that can seep into the system and corrode wires.
In New Jersey, Jersey Central Power and Light reported more than 36,000 homes and businesses are without electricity Tuesday even as the storm moved out of the region.
What seemed like one three-day storm, was actually two storms, said Justin Arnott of the National Weather Service, in Gray, Maine.
“It’s complex from the standpoint that there’s been more than one low pressure system that has hit us in short succession. Normally we get a break — but not this time,” he said.
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State police: Man survives 7-story jump to escape officers - News 12 Connecticut
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State police: Man survives 7-story jump to escape officers
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They say they spotted a red Nissan Maxima speeding southbound on Interstate 95 in Bridgeport around 1 a.m. Friday. They say the car was driven by 28-year-old Nelson Perez, who wasn't wearing a seat belt and led police on a high-speed chase down I-95 ...
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Today in History - Maryland v. Wilson
After a Maryland state trooper stopped the speeding car in which he was riding, a nervous Wilson was ordered to step out. As he did, a quantity of cocaine fell on the ground. When arrested for possession with intent to distribute, Wilson challenged the manner in which the evidence against him was obtained. After the Baltimore County Circuit Court ruled to suppress the evidence against Wilson, Maryland appealed to the Maryland Court of Special Appeals – which affirmed. The Supreme Court granted Maryland certiorari.
Did Maryland’s state trooper violate the Fourth Amendment’s search and seizure guarantees by ordering Wilson, a mere passenger in the suspect vehicle, to exit the car during a traffic stop?
No. The Court held that after lawfully stopping a speeding vehicle, an officer may order its passengers to step out. While burdening their personal liberty somewhat, officers must be permitted such authority over passengers if the overriding government’s interest in officer safety is to be protected.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 95-1268
MARYLAND, PETITIONER v. JERRY LEE WILSON
on writ of certiorari to the court of special appeals of Maryland
[February 19, 1997]
Chief Justice Rehnquist delivered the opinion of the Court.
In this case, we consider whether the rule of Pennsylvania v. Mimms, 434 U.S. 106 (1977), that a police officer may as a matter of course order the driver of a lawfully stopped car to exit his vehicle, extends to passengers as well. We hold that it does.
At about 7:30 p.m. on a June evening, Maryland state trooper David Hughes observed a passenger car driving southbound on I-95 in Baltimore County at a speed of 64 miles per hour. The posted speed limit was 55 miles per hour, and the car had no regular license tag; there was a torn piece of paper reading “Enterprise Rent A Car” dangling from its rear. Hughes activated his lights and sirens, signaling the car to pull over, but it continued driving for another mile and a half until it finally did so.
During the pursuit, Hughes noticed that there were three occupants in the car and that the two passengers turned to look at him several times, repeatedly ducking below sight level and then reappearing. As Hughes approached the car on foot, the driver alighted and met him halfway. The driver was trembling and appeared extremely nervous, but nonetheless produced a valid Connecticut driver’s license. Hughes instructed him to return to the car and retrieve the rental documents, and he complied. During this encounter, Hughes noticed that the front seat passenger, respondent Jerry Lee Wilson, was sweating and also appeared extremely nervous. While the driver was sitting in the driver’s seat looking for the rental papers, Hughes ordered Wilson out of the car.
When Wilson exited the car, a quantity of crack cocaine fell to the ground. Wilson was then arrested and charged with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. Before trial, Wilson moved to suppress the evidence, arguing that Hughes’ ordering him out of the car constituted an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment. The Circuit Court for Baltimore County agreed, and granted respondent’s motion to suppress. On appeal, the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland affirmed, 106 Md. App. 24, 664 A. 2d 1 (1995), ruling that Pennsylvania v. Mimms does not apply to passengers. The Court of Appeals of Maryland denied certiorari. 340 Md. 502, 667 A. 2d 342 (1995). We granted certiorari, 518 U. S. ___ (1996), and now reverse.
In Mimms, we considered a traffic stop much like the one before us today. There, Mimms had been stopped for driving with an expired license plate, and the officer asked him to step out of his car. When Mimms did so, the officer noticed a bulge in his jacket that proved to be a .38-caliber revolver, whereupon Mimms was arrested for carrying a concealed deadly weapon. Mimms, like Wilson, urged the suppression of the evidence on the ground that the officer’s ordering him out of the car was an unreasonable seizure, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, like the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland, agreed.
We reversed, explaining that “[t]he touchstone of our analysis under the Fourth Amendment is always `the reasonableness in all the circumstances of the particular governmental invasion of a citizen’s personal security,’ “434 U. S., at 108-109 (quoting Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 19 (1968)), and that reasonableness “depends `on a balance between the public interest and the individual’s right to personal security free from arbitrary interference by law officers,’ ” id., at 109 (quoting United States v. Brignoni-Ponce, 422 U.S. 873, 878 (1975)). On the public interest side of the balance, we noted that the State “freely concede[d]” that there had been nothing unusual or suspicious to justify ordering Mimms out of the car, but that it was the officer’s “practice to order all drivers [stopped in traffic stops] out of their vehicles as a matter of course” as a “precautionary measure” to protect the officer’s safety. Id., at 109-110. We thought it “too plain for argument” that this justification–officer safety–was “both legitimate and weighty.” Id., at 110. In addition, we observed that the danger to the officer of standing by the driver’s door and in the path of oncoming traffic might also be “appreciable.” Id., at 111.
On the other side of the balance, we considered the intrusion into the driver’s liberty occasioned by the officer’s ordering him out of the car. Noting that the driver’s car was already validly stopped for a traffic infraction, we deemed the additional intrusion of asking him to step outside his car “de minimis.” Ibid.Accordingly, we concluded that “once a motor vehicle has been lawfully detained for a traffic violation, the police officers may order the driver to get out of the vehicle without violating the Fourth Amendment‘s proscription of unreasonable seizures.” Id., at 111, n. 6.
Respondent urges, and the lower courts agreed, that this per se rule does not apply to Wilson because he was a passenger, not the driver. Maryland, in turn, argues that we have already implicitly decided this question by our statement in Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032 (1983), that “[i]n [Mimms], we held that police may order persons out of an automobile during a stop for a traffic violation,” id., at 1047-1048 (emphasis added), and by Justice Powell’s statement in Rakas v. Illinois, 439 U.S. 128 (1978), that “this Court determined in [Mimms] thatpassengers in automobiles have no Fourth Amendment right not to be ordered from their vehicle, once a proper stop is made,” id., at 155, n. 4 (Powell, J., joined by Burger, C. J., concurring) (emphasis added). We agree with respondent that the former statement was dictum, and the latter was contained in a concurrence, so that neither constitutes binding precedent.
We must therefore now decide whether the rule of Mimms applies to passengers as well as to drivers. [n.1] On the public interest side of the balance, the same weighty interest in officer safety is present regardless of whether the occupant of the stopped car is a driver or passenger. Regrettably, traffic stops may be dangerous encounters. In 1994 alone, there were 5,762 officer assaults and 11 officers killed during traffic pursuits and stops. Federal Bureau of Investigation, Uniform Crime Reports: Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted 71, 33 (1994). In the case of passengers, the danger of the officer’s standing in the path of oncoming traffic would not be present except in the case of a passenger in the left rear seat, but the fact that there is more than one occupant of the vehicle increases the possible sources of harm to the officer. [n.2]
On the personal liberty side of the balance, the case for the passengers is in one sense stronger than that for the driver. There is probable cause to believe that the driver has committed a minor vehicular offense, but there is no such reason to stop or detain the passengers. But as a practical matter, the passengers are already stopped by virtue of the stop of the vehicle. The only change in their circumstances which will result from ordering them out of the car is that they will be outside of, rather than inside of, the stopped car. Outside the car, the passengers will be denied access to any possible weapon that might be concealed in the interior of the passenger compartment. It would seem that the possibility of a violent encounter stems not from the ordinary reaction of a motorist stopped for a speeding violation, but from the fact that evidence of a more serious crime might be uncovered during the stop. And the motivation of a passenger to employ violence to prevent apprehension of such a crime is every bit as great as that of the driver.
We think that our opinion in Michigan v. Summers, 452 U.S. 692 (1981), offers guidance by analogy here. There the police had obtained a search warrant for contraband thought to be located in a residence, but when they arrived to execute the warrant they found Summers coming down the front steps. The question in the case depended “upon a determination whether the officers had the authority to require him to re enter the house and to remain there while they conducted their search.” Id., at 695. In holding as it did, the Court said:
“Although no special danger to the police is suggested by the evidence in this record, the execution of a warrant to search for narcotics is the kind of transaction that may give rise to sudden violence or frantic efforts to conceal or destroy evidence. The risk of harm to both the police and the occupants is minimized if the officers routinely exercise unquestioned command of the situation.” Id., at 702-703 (footnote omitted).
In summary, danger to an officer from a traffic stop is likely to be greater when there are passengers in addition to the driver in the stopped car. While there is not the same basis for ordering the passengers out of the car as there is for ordering the driver out, the additional intrusion on the passenger is minimal. We therefore hold that an officer making a traffic stop may order passengers to get out of the car pending completion of the stop. [n.3]
The judgment of the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland is reversed, and the case is remanded for proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.
It is so ordered.
Notes
1 Respondent argues that, because we have generally eschewed bright line rules in the Fourth Amendmentcontext, see, e.g., Ohio v. Robinette, 519 U. S. ___ (1996), we should not here conclude that passengers may constitutionally be ordered out of lawfully stopped vehicles. But, that we typically avoid per se rules concerning searches and seizures does not mean that we have always done so; Mimms itself drew a bright line, and we believe the principles that underlay that decision apply to passengers as well.
2 Justice Stevens’ dissenting opinion points out, post, at 2-3, that these statistics are not further broken down as to assaults by passengers and assaults by drivers. It is, indeed, regrettable that the empirical data on a subject such as this are sparse, but we need not ignore the data which do exist simply because further refinement would be even more helpful. Justice Stevens agrees that there is “a strong public interest in minimizing” the number of assaults on law officers, post, at 2, and we believe that our holding today is more likely to accomplish that result than would be the case if his views were to prevail.
3 Maryland urges us to go further and hold that an officer may forcibly detain a passenger for the entire duration of the stop. But respondent was subjected to no detention based on the stopping of the car once he had left it; his arrest was based on probable cause to believe that he was guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The question which Maryland wishes answered, therefore, is not presented by this case, and we express no opinion upon it.
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AMERICANA
WF THOUGHTS (12/30/17).
After a wonderful Christmas in Connecticut, we're back in South Carolina.
On Interstate 95, the one-way drive is about 800 miles. Our bladders are getting older. Our "pit stops" have become more numerous. We frequently stop at the "service areas" on the highway. You know the scene.
Big parking lots. A building full of fast food places, a gift shop, and a Starbucks. And, of course, huge institutional restrooms.
Part of my job, so I can report to you, is to study America. I need to know the pulse of the American people. I must study the behavior of Americans. I do all of this for you. You're welcome.
Over the years, I've learned that the restrooms at the service areas are an ideal place to study America. I always learn a lot in the restrooms. Our recent southbound journey was no exception.
In New Jersey, the service area featured a Burger King. When I took my place in the restroom, I saw one of the most disgusting things that I've ever seen. At the urinal next to me, the guy had one hand in the appropriate location. The other hand was busy stuffing a Burger King burger into his mouth. Yep, this guy was eating while he was peeing! He was in no rush. He was calmly chewing and spewing. He was there when I arrived, and he was still there when I departed. Revolting. Gross.
My next observation occurred in Virginia. A dad was at a urinal. His 5 year old son was standing right behind him. The restroom was crowded. The dad kept telling the kid to stand still.
The kid was holding a little plastic dinosaur. It was about 6 inches tall. At the appropriate time, the kid followed the dad to the sink area. That's when all hell broke loose.
The kid put the dinosaur down on the counter. The dad started screaming. He told the kid that he had ruined the dinosaur. Dad was screaming, quite loudly, that the dinosaur was now infected with hepatitis, cholera, E. coli, and "sex diseases." The dad was totally out of control. He was waving his arms around like a madman. The poor kid broke down in tears. Then, the dad reached into his pocket and pulled out a big bottle of hand sanitizer. He started to drown the dinosaur with the gel. The kid kept crying. The dad kept screaming. Bystanders were shocked. I almost said something to the father, but I was afraid that I would just make the situation worse. I could tell that the guy was not in the mood for a lecture from me.
That was my "slice of America" for that day. One guy is eating, in a dirty restroom, while he's peeing. Another guy is having a heart attack because his kid's toy touched the counter near a public sink.
America is filled with all sorts of people. I'll keep my eyes opened, and I'll keep reporting. Stay tuned.
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Tow truck, several vehicles involved in I-95 crash Friday
http://www.facebook.com/pages/p/203986153359866 Fairfield and Westport fire departments and Connecticut State Police responded to a serious multi-vehicle accident on Interstate 95 southbound ... June 17, 2017 at 05:31PM https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ctpost.com%2Flocal%2Farticle%2FTow-truck-several-vehicles-involved-in-I-95-11227662.php&ct=ga&cd=CAIyHDdmOTY5ZjhkYjhhNDk0YWE6Y29tOmVuOlVTOlI&usg=AFQjCNFGWFp3TttUYSOGIVyMq_pB5C1Tkw
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Part of I-95 in New Haven Closed After Crash
Interstate 95 southbound is closed between exits 46 and 44 in New Haven after a crash, according to the state Department of Transportation.
from Local – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/part-of-i-95-in-new-haven-closed-after-crash/2601474/
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Crash Involving Tractor-Trailer, Multiple Vehicles Closes I-95 South in Norwalk
One side of Interstate 95 in Norwalk is closed after a crash involving a tractor-trailer and multiple vehicles on Tuesday. State Dept. of Transportation officials said the crash has closed the southbound side of the highway between exits 17 and 16. There is also more than six miles of congestion between exits 19 and 15. According to state police, one...
from Local – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/crash-involving-tractor-trailer-multiple-vehicles-closes-i-95-south-in-norwalk/2317046/
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Motorcyclist in Critical Condition After Crash in New Haven
A motorcyclist from East Haven is in critical condition after colliding with an SUV in New Haven on Sunday night. Officers were called to a crash on Sargent Drive at the I-95 southbound entrance ramp around 7 p.m. Before the crash, police said a man from New York was driving an SUV south on Sargent Drive while the motorcyclist was...
from Local – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/motorcyclist-in-critical-condition-after-crash-in-new-haven/2316430/
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Man Dies After Being Found With Gunshot Wound in Car on I-95 in West Haven: PD
A man who was found with a gunshot wound in a car on Interstate 95 in West Haven late Sunday night has died and state police are investigating the shooting as a homicide. State police and West Haven police responded to the exit 43 on ramp on I-95 southbound around 10 p.m. after getting a report of a shooting. When...
from Local – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/man-dies-after-being-found-with-gunshot-wound-in-car-on-i-95-in-west-haven-pd/2312487/
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Truck Accident Causes Heavy Delays on I-95 in Stratford
A truck accident is causing heavy delays on I-95 southbound between exits 34 and 32 in Stratford Friday morning. State police were dispatched after getting reports that a truck went down an embankment. “This could be out here through the morning rush because it will be a complicated removal which might require total closure of 95,” said state police officials....
from Local – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/truck-accident-causes-heavy-delays-on-i-95-in-stratford/2311132/
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Crash Closes Part of I-95 in New Haven
A crash has closed part of Interstate 95 in New Haven on Monday morning. State Department of Transportation officials said the two-vehicle crash is on I-95 southbound between exits 46 and 44. The left lane of the highway is closed. There is no word on how long the highway will be closed for or if anyone was injured.
from Local – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/crash-closes-part-of-i-95-in-new-haven/2298208/
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State Police Stop Wrong-Way Driver on I-95 in New London
State police were able to stop a wrong-way driver on I-95 in the Groton/New London area early Friday morning. A trooper parked in the highway turnaround in Groton at the Gold Star Bridge noticed a vehicle get on the highway from Route 184 and drove southbound in the northbound lanes of I-95 around 2:50 a.m., according to state police. The...
from Local – NBC Connecticut https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/state-police-stop-wrong-way-driver-on-i-95-in-new-london/2294217/
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Scene Clear After Tractor-Trailer Crash on I-95 in Madison
Two tractor-trailers were involved in a crash on Interstate 95 in Madison Friday morning. Officials said the area of exit 62 southbound was shut down. The road has opened. Minor injuries are reported. No additional information was immediately available.
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