Tiverton,RI: Tiverton’s fire truck involved in crash on may, monday 8th 2017

Three people were taken to the hospital and a car and a fire truck were heavily damaged in a head-on collision on Bulgarmarsh Road Monday.

Tiverton police are investigating whether the Westport woman who hit the fire truck was driving under the influence. Officials said investigators recovered several empty nip bottles from the vehicle driven by Lucia Borges, 46, of 80 B Drive in Westport.Tiverton police Capt. Patrick Jones said Borges, who was still in the intensive care unit Tuesday at Rhode Island Hospital, has a “significant history” of motor vehicle offenses, including a 2014 arrest in Massachusetts for operating under the influence of alcohol. Jones said investigators will be seeking to obtain Borges’ medical records from the hospital in order to determine if she was impaired while driving.

Jones also said the Tiverton Police Department will also be stepping up patrols this summer to deter impaired driving. In the past two weeks, there have been at least three suspected drunken driving incidents in Tiverton, including an April 18 crash on Route 24 where a 41-year-old Fall River woman suffered serious injuries after crashing into a guardrail near the Fish Road exit.

“It’s clearly a disturbing pattern and trend,” Jones said.

Around 2:30 p.m. Monday, Tiverton firefighters on Engine 2 were returning to the Crandall Road station when Borges’ vehicle, which was traveling west on Route 177, crossed the center line near the intersection of Cornell Road and struck the engine in its front driver’s side corner, according to Fire Chief Robert Lloyd.

“They were in traffic from the middle school,” Lloyd said. “They did not have their lights and siren on. The car crossed the center line and hit them.”

Lloyd said the firefighters saw Borges’ vehicle and tried to pull the truck off the road, but could not avoid the collision.



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Tiverton’s fire truck involved in crash