Groton, Ledyard And Waterford Police Track Cow Hill Road Crash Suspect

With the assistance of a Waterford Police K-9 and Ledyard Police helping with a perimeter search, Groton Police located the man who fled the scene of a head-on collision on Cow Hill Road in Groton around 9 a.m. this morning.

According to Groton Police Patrol Supervisor Sgt. Jeffrey W. Scribner, after the crash, which demolished at least one of the vehicles involved, one driver fled the scene, and the other, an entrapped woman freed by emergency workers wastransported to Lawrence & Memorial Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

Meanwhile, police began a search for the other driver that left the scene of the accident.

 Scribner said that it was believed the man, who police have declined to identify until after he is evaluated medically for injuries sustained in the crash and when charges are filed, headed north on Rt. 184. Scribner said Ledyard police assisted in setting up a perimeter search grid and Waterford Police arrived with its search dog. Scribner said the man, described as in his 20s was found on foot on Flanders Road on the Stonington-Groton border.

Assisting at the accident scene, which held up traffic, saw Cow Hill Road closed for more than two hours were Old Mystic Fire Department, Mystic River and Lawrence & Memorial ambulances and the three police departments.