UXBRIDGE — Fire officials say they are amazed that a driver wasn’t seriously hurt when his vehicle slid under a tractor-trailer in Massachusetts.
Authorities say the car was on Route 146 in Uxbridge on Tuesday when it hit something in the road and went airborne. The brakes didn’t work, and the car crossed a grassy area onto a highway ramp where it became wedged under the truck.
The car was then dragged “a good distance.” The roof was crushed.
Fire officials say the motorist climbed out of the driver’s side door.
The 61-year-old driver was Ricki Artruc, of Southbridge. He tells NBC Boston he’s “just glad to be alive.”
The Uxbridge Fire Department posted on Facebook that Artruc was taken to the hospital and is recovering from minor injuries.
PERU — A woman’s body was been found in a rural area of Massachusetts and authorities are trying to determine whether it’s the body of a woman who went missing from her sister’s nearby home in May.
The Berkshire district attorney’s office says loggers found the body in a heavily wooded area of Peru on Tuesday morning.
The body was handed over to the medical examiner for an autopsy to determine an identity and the circumstances surrounding her death.
The Berkshire Eagle reports that a 53-year-old woman went missing from her sister’s home in the adjacent town of Hinsdale in May. Authorities said at the time they did not suspect foul play.