WILMINGTON — A 60-year-old man was driving drunk when his pickup truck crashed into a car on Interstate 93 north during yesterday's morning commute, causing a massive traffic jam, state police said.
About 5:50 a.m., Richard Hall, who state police said is from Fayette, Maine, swerved his 1989 Chevy K10 pickup truck into a 2000 Honda Civic being driven by Howard Kaufman, 56, of Melrose, forcing Kaufman into the median strip.
Hall kept driving, said Sgt. Matthew Murray of the state police media relations department, hitting a tree and rolling the truck onto its roof.
Trooper Bryan Erickson investigated. He will summons Hall to court on charges of driving under the influence of liquor, driving with an open container of alcohol, leaving the scene of an accident, and a marked lanes violation.
Hall, who was listed by the state Registry of Motor Vehicles as living in Medford, was treated at Brigham and Women's Hospital for serious, but non-life-threatening, injuries yesterday.
He was flown there by MedFlight helicopter after the crash.
Kaufman was taken by ambulance to Winchester Hospital.
He was treated for minor injuries and released.
The accident closed both sides of I-93 in Wilmington for about 20 minutes, and the scene was cleared just after 7 a.m.
