Carlton Jack’s Connecticut Department of Transportation truck was struck while he and his crew were working on a daytime patch operation in on Interstate 84 in Willington. The car crashed into his truck, then took off. No one was hurt but Jack, a maintainer and sweeper operator with the DOT, considers himself lucky.
“I was the second unit out of three in a patch operation on the shoulder and right lane,” Jack said. “Normally, what happens in my observations is people wait until the last minute to merge. That was the case here. A car was trying to squeeze in at the last minute, but there was a tractor-trailer in the left lane and did not want to let him in. So, he struck my truck and kept going.
“The good thing is that no one is hurt,” Jack added. “But it was really frightening. It’s not a situation you want to be in. I want to go home to my family at the end of the day. We want everyone to go home safe.”…