State Police Investigate Crash Route 3 North in Chelmsford

Today at 4:10 a.m., Troopers assigned to the State Police Barracks in Andover responded to a single vehicle crash on Route 3 Northbound just north of the Drum Hill rotary in Chelmsford.

Preliminary investigation by Trooper Craig Tanguay indicates that a 2006 Ford Ranger pick-up truck owned by Cardinal Health Services was transporting containers of radioactive imaging chemicals northbound on Route 3 in Chelmsford when it rolled over into the breakdown lane striking the guardrail. The driver, 26 year old Steven P. Sekenski of Woburn was not injured. The containers went onto the roadway and into the Freeman Lake which runs along Route 3.

This crash remains under investigation with the assistance of the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section, the State Police Crime Scene Services Section, the State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Section, the State Police Underwater Recovery Section, the Nuclear Incident Advisory Team, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Radiation Control Program, the Chelmsford Fire Department, the Westford Fire Department and the MassHighway Department.

The right lanes of Route 3 North were closed for an extended period of time.

No further information is available at this time. Please do not call the barrack directly.

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