Two Fatalities, One Injury Reported in I-84 Dump Truck Crash in Tolland, CT
Two women were killed and a man was injured in a crash involving a dump truck on Interstate 84 west in Tolland, Connecticut, on Wednesday night. State police identified the deceased as Paige Amanda Cooke, 29, of Manchester, NH, and Kristina Murphy, 28, of Wilmington, MA. The incident occurred around 10:45 p.m. near exit 68. According to state police, Cooke was driving a Kia Sportage when it collided with the rear of a Mack dump truck. Both vehicles sustained disabling damage. Cooke and Murphy, who were in the Kia, were pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the dump truck sustained injuries, the extent of which were not immediately known. The highway was shut down at exit 69 but has since reopened. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.