MARLBORO For the second time in three days, a vehicle ran over a guardrail of a major highway, plunging to the ground.
At 1:18 p.m. Sunday, state police were called to Interstate 495 southbound, south of Exit 25, on a report of a vehicle that had gone off the highway, over the guardrail and landed just off Berlin Road in Marlboro.
State police Lt. Daniel Richard said troopers found a 2003 Toyota Sequoia resting on its side.. Inside were six adults, including the driver, a 44-year-old woman from Worcester.
All six victims were taken by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center University Campus in Worcester with minor injuries.
This crash remains under investigation by Trooper Kristopher Malm from the state police barracks in Leominster.
On Friday, a pickup truck attempting to avoid another car while merging lanes on Interstate 290 in Worcester rode up a snowbank, over a guardrail and fell 30 feet off a wall. The driver may owe his survival to deep snow on the ground where his truck landed.
Lt. Richard said because there is so much snow some guardrails are covered. Instead of stopping a car that hits a guardrail, in some cases the vehicles can ride up the snow and off the road.
Source: http://www.telegram.com/article/20150215/NEWS/302159671/1116
