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February 28, 2007

6 Wyatt inmates hurt in three-car crash in Foster

FOSTER — Six inmates from the Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls were brought to the hospital with minor injuries after the van they were traveling in was involved in a three-car accident this morning.

Foster Police Chief Robert E. Coyne Jr. said the van was traveling westbound on Route 6, or Danielson Pike, toward Connecticut around 7:30 a.m. The van and another car, an Oldsmobile, had stopped as a child was boarding a school bus on the other side of the road.

But the driver of a third car, a Subaru Outback, apparently did not see the cars stopping ahead and slammed into the Oldsmobile, which, in turn, hit the van.

Rescue units from Foster, Glocester and Scituate responded. At least seven people were transported to to Miriam Hospital in Providence, including the six inmates and the driver of the Oldsmobile with complaints of neck and back pain.

-- Journal staff writer Philip Marcelo

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