A driver hit the SUV that was transporting the lieutenant governor in Vernon this morning but no one was injured, according to police.
Police said the crash was on Route 30, at the intersection of East Street, around 8:09 a.m.
According to police, a 43-year-old Hartford woman was going east on Route 30 toward Tolland and tried to turn left onto East Street and turned into the path of a state of Connecticut Ford Explorer the governor’s security detail was driving in the right lane of the westbound side of Route 30, police said. Lt Governor Nancy Wyman was a passenger in the Ford Explorer.
Police said the impact pushed the Explorer into a Jeep that was stopped in traffic and the Jeep and Ford Explorer were damaged and needed to be towed, but no one was injured.
Wyman announced Thursday that she will not run for governor in 2018 and said during a news conference about that decision that she is fine after the crash and will be talking to local officials about a light in the area where the crash happened.
Police issued an infraction to the driver who hit the SUV for failure to grant the right of way.
