Police were looking for a dark-colored, mid-sized sedan with front end damage and reviewing video from cameras installed in the tunnels.
BOSTON – State police reported Tuesday that a trooper on the lookout for speeders was struck and seriously injured by a vehicle he was trying to pull over.
A department spokesman said the trooper was outside his cruiser when he was struck just after 9 a.m. Tuesday on a ramp to the Massachusetts Turnpike eastbound in Boston by a vehicle that fled the scene. The ramp was closed for about an hour.
He was taken to an area hospital with leg injuries. His name was not immediately released.
Police are looking for a dark-colored, mid-sized sedan with front end damage and reviewing video from cameras installed in the tunnels.
They are also looking for two other vehicles that may have witnessed the crash.
This is the latest in a series of incidents in which state troopers have been hit while patrolling Massachusetts roadways.