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GRAFTON, Mass. — Traffic was backed up on Worcester Street in Grafton for about an hour Tuesday afternoon after a car flipped off the road and over a guardrail, police said.
Grafton police were called to the scene at about 3:15 p.m. A southbound gray Toyota Camry swerved into the northbound lane before sailing over a guardrail and coming to rest on its side in a swampy area just before the driveway to 106 Worcester St., police said.
The unidentified male driver was pulled from the vehicle and transported to UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, police said.
The car's tailpipe rested at the side of the road, apparently dislodged in the crash. Firefighters and a crew from Direnzo Towing and Recovery of Millbury attached ropes and chains to the car to haul it back over the guardrail.
The cause of the crash was under investigation by Grafton police.
Comments (4)
This flipover is no accident! Road sand buildup along that guardrail for years of neglect and lack of road side maintenance has built a small ramp in front of this guardrail. This guardral fence is supposed to be at a hight sufficient for preventing a vehicle from ramping up and over the top of the rail. Year after year of road sweeping doesn't remove the build up a sand along many roadsides and steel guardrail fences along state roads are set back just far enough for a mond of sand to build up in front of these protective barriers. These barriers aren't put up to keep dogs and cats off the road, they're place where they are to keep vehicles from vearing off the road edge in dangerous spots. Check it out- the side of Worcester St where this occured could use a good cleanout along the bootom of the guardrail. Thos weeds and golden rods are rooted even with the bottom edge of the the steel fence.
Most rails look pretty but serve little purpose.
And yet, hundreds of thousands of other cars didn't manage to get flipped over...
It was no accident, but it certainly wasn't the sand or the guardrail's fault.
Thank you, Jennifer, for calling this what it was -- a crash.
It surely was no accident.