All of the car's occupants were able to escape the burning car, officials said. Read More

The Shelton Fire Department responded to a crash and vehicle fire on Route 8. Read More

WATERBURY, CT - August 27, 2026 - Motorcyclists traveling on major roadways such as Route 8 and I-84 face distinct ... Read More

A Life Star medical helicopter was called to the scene, state police said. Read More

Five people were injured in a multi-vehicle crash in Haddam on Monday, including one who was airlifted to a children's hospital. The crash occurred on Route 81, also known as Killingworth Road, not ... Read More

A 79-year-old Oxford man has died following a head-on collision between two vehicles near the intersection of Great Hill and Southwest Roads on Friday night, police said. Read More

One person who died in the fiery, hit-and-run crash has not been identified, state police say. Read More

A 36-year-old woman accused of driving under the influence continued traveling the wrong way after crashing into a Connecticut State Police cruiser trying to block her path. Read More

The woman was arrested after she allegedly struck a state police cruiser then drove off while traveling the wrong way on Route 8 in Thomaston. Read More

Blizzard Calvin is expected to bring heavy snow, wind gusts up to 55 mph, and moderate coastal flooding to Connecticut's shoreline communities overnight Sunday into Monday. Crews work through blizzard ... Read More

Naugatuck police are investigating after a car was shot at before crashing into a guardrail, causing minor injuries to the passengers. Authorities said they ... Read More

Serious injuries were reported in a motorcycle crash on Saturday in Naugatuck, police said. The crash took place in the area of Andrew Mountain Road and Yorktown Road ... Read More

Route 8 north was closed between exits 21 and 24 Saturday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation. Read More

Route 8 north was closed between exits 21 and 24 Saturday morning, according to the state Department of Transportation. Read More

A Waterbury man who died in a rollover crash on Route 8 north in Beacon Falls on Saturday morning has been identified. The single-vehicle crash happened at around 7:22 ... Read More

A Torrington man has been arrested and charged with motor vehicle theft in Torrington after fire crews responded to a report of a fire at his home. Read More

BEACON FALLS - A 19-year-old Naugatuck resident was killed Friday in a motorcycle crash on Beacon Valley Road, state police said. The two-vehicle collision took place around 11:50 a.m. near the ... Read More

WINCHESTER, Connecticut - A Winsted man died after hit and run crash Saturday afternoon. Police said Steven Gibbons, 67, of Winsted died from his injuries. Police said they were called at 2:42 p.m. to ... Read More

According to police, 40-year-old William Kundert was driving erratically and had fentanyl and other drugs in his blood when his Ford F-600 hit a Honda Civic on Route 8 in February 2024, killing a ... Read More

A 29-year-old Connecticut man was killed in a violent crash on Route 82 in East Haddam when police say he lost control of his car and flipped in the middle of the highway over the weekend. Patrick ... Read More

Check out the current traffic and highway conditions at RT 8 s / o Exit 30 & s / o Nicholas Dr in Watertown, CT. Avoid traffic & plan ahead! Read More

Check out the current traffic and highway conditions at RT 8 s / o Exit 30 & n / o Nicholas Dr in Watertown, CT. Avoid traffic & plan ahead! Read More

Florida authorities say a former Connecticut police officer was arrested for DUI Saturday night after nearly crashing into a Polk County Sheriff's Office vehicle. Read More

Police arrested a man and a woman after they led officers on a high-speed chase across multiple Connecticut cities and towns following a violent carjacking that ended in a crash, authorities said. Read More

Two young men were seriously injured early Saturday morning, June 7, after their car veered off the road and slammed into a stone wall along a highway, authorities said. The crash happened around 3:15 ... Read More

State police said they tried stopping Wall after his pickup truck nearly struck a trooper and a driver at the scene of a crash on Route 89, but he instead engaged in a chase. Read More

Connecticut State Police are investigating a deadly Seymour crash. Troopers say Daniel Popiolek, 37, of Beacon Falls, died after he was ejected from a 2010 Subaru Legacy that lost control, went off ... Read More

SEYMOUR, Conn. - Part of Route 8 north is closed Thursday after a single-car crash in Seymour with serious injuries involved, state police said. Route 8 north is currently closed at Exit 18 in ... Read More

Route 8 North has reopened in Seymour hours after a car crash Thursday night. The state Department of Transportation said the highway was closed between exits 18 and 21, but has since reopened. Read More

A portion of Route 8 ... in Seymour because of a car crash Thursday night. The state Department of Transportation is closed near exit 18 due to a crash involving two vehicles. Stream Connecticut ... Read More

One person has been seriously injured after a motorcycle crash Sunday afternoon, State Police said. Troop L. officers responded to the scene on Lead Mine Brook Road ... Read More

Naugatuck, CT (May 16, 2025) - A 45-year-old man was killed Thursday afternoon in a tragic chain-reaction crash on Route 8 South in Naugatuck after he had exited his vehicle following a prior ... Read More

A 45-year-old man from Connecticut was killed early Thursday after a bizarre chain of events ended with him being struck by a vehicle along Route 8, authorities said. Jimmy Bedard, of Wolcott, died ... Read More

Route 8 South is closed in Naugatuck because of a crash and state police said there are serious injuries. The crash is near exit 25B in Naugatuck. Three vehicles are involved, according to CT ... Read More

NAUGATUCK, Conn. (WFSB) - A part of route 8 is closed after a crash. According to the Department of Transportation, route 8 southbound is closed between Exits 26 and 25B. The three car crash occurred ... Read More

A person has died and two others are injured following a crash in the area of River Road and Montgomery Street in Shelton, police said. Police said it happened around ... Read More

The Connecticut ... outcome. Shelton-Based Subway Closing Hundreds Of Restaurants Yearly, Aims For 'Smart Growth' 120 MPH: Intoxicated Driver Led Police On Route 2 Chase Before Crashing Into Car, Cops ... Read More

Officials said the Trumbull crash occurred between exits 48 and 49S in the northbound lanes of Route 15 on Wednesday morning. Read More

Connecticut's interstate was one of the first ... a DOT project that aims to prepare the Interstate 84 / Route 8 interchange in Waterbury, known as the Mixmaster, for redevelopment. Read More

SHELTON - A driver who was found unconscious and not breathing in a vehicle on the side of Route 8 Saturday morning has been pronounced dead. Connecticut ... face along the highway shoulder ... Read More

A GoFundMe has been set up to help a Seymour man struck by a vehicle on Route 8 Sunday morning. Click here to read the fundraiser for ... Read More

Serious injuries were reported in a collision involving a pedestrian on Route 8 South in Shelton on Sunday morning. Troopers responded to a report of a crash involving a vehicle and a pedestrian on ... Read More

Two Russian figure skating coaches, Evgenia Shishkova and Vadim Naumov, who had strong Connecticut ties, were among those killed when an American Airlines flight and an Army helicopter collided ... Read More

State police said the two Bridgeport men, a 32-year-old driver and 31-year-old passenger, were ejected from the vehicle. Read More

Connecticut State Police shut down a portion of Route 8 in Fairfield County Thursday morning, Jan. 30, after a car careened off the road, rolled over, and hit a utility police. The crash was reported ... Read More

Two men from suffered serious injuries Thursday morning in a single-car rollover crash on Route 8 North in Shelton, according to state police. Read More

A driver sustained serious injuries and another person was taken to the hospital after a one-vehicle crash on Route 8 North in Shelton Thursday. State police said Route 8 North was closed for several ... Read More

CT state police say Joselito Santiago Jr., a Watertown man, drive while impaired, caused a crash on Route 8 in Waterbury and was uncooperative with troopers. Read More

Six people have serious injuries after a crash in New Britain on Thursday night. State police said a 25-year-old Waterbury woman was driving a BMW SUV on Route 72 in New Britain when she lost control ... Read More

Waterbury police say a juvenile is facing a variety of firearm and drug charges after officers spotted a suspicious vehicle on Thursday. An adult driving the car was also ... Read More

Gerald Lapointe, of Florence, Massachusetts, was cited after he crashed into a Connecticut State Police car in Harwinton in Litchfield ... northbound lane of Route 8, about a mile south of exit ... Read More

A memorial is planned in Waterbury to celebrate the life of Chloe Ramsubhag, a teen killed in a car crash on Route 8 Sunday. Read More

Two people were arrested for manslaughter on Monday in connection to a July crash that killed a 24-year-old man, according to police. Logan Diaz-Lopardo, 21 and Abbigale ... Read More

A Connecticut 14-year-old girl was killed and two others were seriously injured in a hit-and-run crash on Route 8 early Sunday morning, Jan. 12. Chloe Ramsubhag, of Waterbury, was riding in a Honda ... Read More

DERBY - A Bridgeport man was sentenced Wednesday ... Ethan Fry has been a reporter with Hearst Connecticut since 2019. Prior to working at Hearst, he worked at the Valley Independent Sentinel ... Read More

Traveler Food and Books, or the Traveler Restaurant, is a family-style diner off Highway 84 between Union, Connecticut, and Sturbridge, Massachusetts, just south of the state line. It's perfect ... Read More

Stratford police are searching for a woman who fled the scene at a traffic stop. Police are searching for Zha Harris, 50, who was the passenger in a car that had been ... Read More

A serious crash between a vehicle and a bicycle has closed Route 80 in Killingworth. The crash happened around 12:15 p.m. on Route 80 near Hemlock Drive, according to state police. The victim ... Read More

The crash occurred near the intersection of Middletown and Barnes avenues, just north of Foxon Boulevard, also called Route 80, in the city's Quinnipiac Meadows neighborhood around 1:50 a.m., New ... Read More

WATERBURY, Conn. (WTNH) - A two-car collision in Waterbury ... and the scene remains active and under investigation. Stay with News 8 for updates. Read More

A man suffered serious injuries following a crash in Salem Friday afternoon. State police say that the driver, 51-year-old Thomas Devito of Lyme, was traveling south on Route 85 when he tried to make ... Read More

Shelton police Wednesday identified the 24-year-old who died after a crash and car fire over the weekend. Officers responded to a single-vehicle crash with the car on fire ... Read More

Emergency crews responded to the area of Commerce Drive and Research Drive at 11:30 p.m. on the report of a car fire and found that the vehicle had caught on fire. Read More

Four city men were arraigned Friday on a slew of drug charges following a lengthy investigation by city, state and federal authorities into drug trafficking. City police, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Age ... Read More

Seymour, CT (June 2, 2024) - A motorcycle accident on Route 8 northbound near Exit 22 left two people injured ... and spending time with his family in North Carolina. Read More

BRIDGEPORT - The families of two men, who lay dead in the wreck of their car for two days after it crashed off Route 8 in Shelton following what was officially called a '?police investigation,'? are ... Read More

Connecticut State Police / Contributed Photo BEACON FALLS - The Bridgeport mother of two children who were killed in a crash on Route 8 Sunday also has died from her injuries, police said Tuesday. Read More

A Norwalk man was killed Wednesday night after the Jeep he was driving collided with a Toyota Supra that was merging onto Route 8, state police said.  A child who was in a car seat in the back of the ... Read More

BRIDGEPORT - Police have closed two highway ramps on Route 8 Friday morning due to motor vehicle collisions. It was not immediately how many crashes occurred or if there were any injuries. The state ... Read More

The precipitation and subfreezing temperatures are causing slick surfaces on Tuesday morning and multiple crashes have been reported. Two lanes are blocked on Route 8S at exit 14 on the Derby side of ... Read More

SEYMOUR - A man was seriously injured in a crash on Route 8 Sunday afternoon, police say. In a release, State Police said troopers were called to Route 8 at 2:47 for a report of a crash near Exit 19. Read More

Amy Louise Rockwell, 45, a lifelong resident of Newtown, Connecticut, passed away in a car accident on October 8, 2023. Amy was born on December 30, 1977 in Danbury, Connecticut to Patricia Louise ... Read More

SHELTON >> A Connecticut State Police dispatcher from Troop I in Bethany has confirmed that there was a rollover this morning on Route 8 North near Exit 12. The trooper says the driver does not ... Read More

Route 8 South in Derby has reopened after a single-car crash just after the exit 17 off-ramp, according to state police. Traffic was diverted off the highway at exit 17 southbound and immediately ... Read More