Overview
- The crash occurred around 2:15 a.m. Friday on Turnpike Street/Route 138 near Chase Landing in Easton, Massachusetts.
- Preliminary accounts indicate a disabled Mack dump truck was rear-ended by a Ford F-350, then a Toyota Camry struck the pickup and ignited, leaving two vehicles in flames.
- Patrol Officer Dean Soucie arrived first, broke the driver’s window, and with help from two bystanders pulled the trapped pickup driver to safety; the bystanders had tried an extinguisher and removed a gas tank beforehand, police said.
- The 78-year-old Raynham man was hospitalized with serious but non-life-threatening injuries after an initial local admission and a transfer to a Boston hospital.
- Turnpike Street reopened after hours of closure for emergency response and evidence collection, and police body-camera footage of the rescue was published by local media.