North Hampton,NH : Off-duty MA police officer, Mainers injured in serious NH crash on October, Sunday 8th 2017

Police said two Mainers and a Massachusetts off-duty police officer, were all injured in a crash on Interstate 95 in North Hampton, New Hampshire Sunday.

Police said it happened in the southbound lane just before 9:30 a.m.


Police said the driver of a black 2013 Mercedes-Benz, Michael Ricci, 18, of Burlington, Massachusetts was racing other cars in the northbound lane, when he abruptly drove over the restricted access crossover at mile marker 8.8.

Police said Ricci drove into oncoming southbound traffic and hit a red 2003 Harley Davidson being driven by Louis Remigo, 55, of Tewksbury, Massachusetts. Officials confirm that Remigo is an off-duty police officer with the Somerville, Massachusetts Police Department. He was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries.

As a result of the first collision, a grey 2009 Subaru Legacy driven by John Bamford, 63, of Wells, could not stop in time and rear ended Ricci's Mercedes, police said. Bamford and his passenger, 61-year-old Jaclyn Bamford, also of Wells, were both taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Then, according to police, while attempting to avoid the crash a red 2015 Ford Explorer driven by Jay Coombs, 50, of South Portland, and a black 2016 Ford F-150 driven by Scott Chertoff, 30, of Flemington, New Jersey both sustained damage to their vehicles while driving through debris at the scene. Neither driver was injured.

Police said Ricci who was uninjured, was arrested and charged with felony reckless conduct and is being held on $10,000 cash bail at the Rockingham County Jail.

Ricci is expected to be arraigned on Tuesday.

Traffic back-ups were reported as far north as exit 3 near Portsmouth.

The interstate was reopened shortly before 1 p.m.

Source :
Woman