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TARR IN THE NEWS | 8.19.26
TARR IN THE NEWS | 8.19.26
'Sen Tarr Lauds Anti-Wrong-Way Driving Measures Prompted by Law'
By WHAV News Staff | WHAV
EXCERPT BELOW:
"State Senate Minority Leader Bruce E. Tarr said this week he is pleased by the installation of new “wrong way” driving signs prompted by a new law he championed following the highway deaths of a college police officer, 18-year-old student and a state trooper in separate accidents.
Tarr praised Massachusetts Department of Transportation’s installations along Route 128 northbound and southbound. He remembered Endicott College Police Sgt. Jeremy Cole, who was killed when struck by a wrong-way driver on Thanksgiving in 2024; 18-year-old Christopher J. Dailey, who died July 4, 2025 after a car crash involving a wrong-way driver; and Massachusetts State Police Trooper Kevin Trainor, who was killed last May when he was struck by a wrong-way driver on Route 1 in Lynnfield.
“When our comprehensive legislation to combat wrong-way driving became law as part of the Fiscal Year 2027 state budget in July, it made clear that our Commonwealth was committed to doing everything possible to prevent the type of tragic accidents that took the lives of Sgt. Cole, Chris Dailey and Trooper Trainor,” Tarr said."
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"The senator noted the law is bringing “practical steps as state-of-the-art wrong way driving detection and prevention devices are being installed at prioritized locations along the Route 128 corridor between Peabody and Gloucester, and in other similarly important places by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.”
“The effectiveness of these devices has been proven by similar deployments in other states, and through a recently completed MassDOT pilot program. Their installation represents real and significant progress that will make our roadways safer and honor those whose lives have been lost to wrong way driving by dramatically reducing the odds it will happen in the future,” Tarr added."
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