Lengthy extrication process frees driver after his car collides with a tractor-trailer in Merrimack
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- Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS Firefighters and medical personnel prepare to remove the injured driver from his vehicle following a 45-minute extrication process, the result of a collision between his vehicle and a tractor-trailer on Continental Boulevard in Merrimack Tuesday evening. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS )
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- Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS A firefighter examines the wreckage of the car from which the driver had to be extricated after the vehicle collided with the tractor-trailer unit in the background Tuesday evening on Continental Boulevard in Merrimack. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS )
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- Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS The tractor-trailer unit involved in a collision with another vehicle in merrimack Tuesday evening sustained significant damage to its cab. The driver of the truck was uninjured. (Photo by JEFFREY HASTINGS )
MERRIMACK – A head-on crash involving a car and tractor-trailer unit on Continental Boulevard Tuesday evening sent the car’s driver to a local hospital after firefighters worked for nearly 45 minutes to free him from the vehicle.
The man, whose identity wasn’t immediately released, sustained injuries that officials considered serious, but not life-threatening.
Crews used multiple cutting tools and a hydraulic rescue tool known as the jaws of life to free the man from his car.
Initial information at the scene indicated that the tractor-trailer was traveling east on Continental Boulevard while the car was traveling west when the collision occurred at about 5:30 p.m.
Police closed Continental Boulevard between Naticook and Tinker roads while Merrimack police and members of State Police Troop G, the division that handles investigations involving commercial vehicles, conducted an on-scene investigation.
