Public Safety
After 2 Highway Deaths Near Darien, More Traffic Law Enforcement Requested
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More state police may be enforcing traffic law soon on Interstate 95 in Fairfield County and on U.S. Route 7 after the deaths of a Darien woman on Tuesday, a bus driver on Wednesday and recent accidents that have left I-95 backed up for hours. A 3 p.m. accident Wednesday close by Exit 14 on the southbound-traffic side of Interstate 95 sent a bus driver and 18 injured passengers to Norwalk and Stamford hospital, according to a report in the Hour of Norwalk. The accident involved a large truck and a bus killed the bus driver, a 32-year-old New Jersey man. On Tuesday, Selma Spector, 85, of Darien died after a multi-car accident on U.S. Route 7. “Two serious accidents in as many days on our highways in Norwalk is too much,” state Sen. Bob Duff said in a statement Wednesday night on Instagram.