Date: Fri 30-Jul-1999

Publication: Bee

Author: ANDYG

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Four Injured In Chain Reaction Crash On I-84

(with photo)

A chain-reaction accident involving two trucks and an auto on westbound

Interstate-84 west of Exit 10 injured four people and backed up traffic to

Southbury for several hours Tuesday afternoon.

Westbound motorists trying to avoid the backups exited westbound I-84 onto

local roads causing extended traffic tie-ups there. On eastbound I-84, another

traffic jam formed when motorists slowed down to look at the accident in the

westbound lanes.

State police said tractor-trailer truck driver Tomasz Dziubanski, 31, of New

Britain, was driving westbound and then looked down at some paperwork for his

next delivery just before driving into the rear end of a westbound 1999 GMC

truck driven by Donald B. Jones, 50, of Chelmsford, Mass.

Donald Jones, and two passengers in the GMC truck, Maryann Jones, 50, and

Joanna Jones, 21, struck their heads on the rear window of that truck, state

police said.

The impact forced the GMC truck into the rear end of a westbound 1982 Datsun

210 driven by Andrea J. Flammia, 31, of Waterbury, state police said. Ms

Flammia reported neck pain, state police said.

Dziubanski reported no injuries.

Ambulance crews from Newtown, Bethel and Stony Hill transported the injured to

Danbury Hospital where all were treated and released. Newtown Hook and Ladder

firefighters went to the accident scene.

State police attributed the accident to inattentiveness on the part of Mr

Dziubanski and issued him an infractions ticket for traveling too fast.