A 33-year-old woman has died following a seven-car pileup involving a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 southbound in Waterford Sunday night, according to state police.
Saumya Arora, 33, was seriously injured after a tractor-trailer carrying frozen food struck the car in which she was a passenger around 7:30 p.m. Sunday. She was rushed to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital for treatment, then airlifted to Yale-New Haven Hospital, according to police.
The tractor-trailer, driven by 60-year-old Massachusetts resident Kevin Custer, continued on to strike two additional cars south of exit 82 on I-95 southbound, causing a domino effect involving a total of seven vehicles, state police said.
A total of seven people were hospitalized following the crash. Jason Grant, 38, of Attleboro, Massachusetts; Cheryl Laffey, 59, of Waterford; David Laffey, 44, of Waterford; and Vikram Dhawan, 39, of New York, were taken to Lawrence + Memorial Hospital for treatment.
Adam Miller, of North Port, Florida, was treated at William Backus Memorial Hospital.
Police have not released information on the seventh person who was hospitalized but said Saumya Arora was the only crash victim who was seriously injured.
State Department of Transportation and Department of Energy and Environmental Protection officials and an environmental contractor responded to the scene to clean up "spilled fluids," according to state police.
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The crash happened less than two hours before another crash in the same area that killed two children – a 3-year-old boy and 9-year-old girl – and the boy's father, all Meriden residents.
