Connecticut State Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection

Connecticut State Police Patch STATE OF CONNECTICUT
Department of Public Safety
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Middletown, Connecticut 06457		  
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

06/15/09                                                                              

STATE POLICE INVESTIGATE

FATAL MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT IN ORANGE CT

MILFORD POLICE CRUISER INVOLVED

   On Saturday 06/13/09 at approximately 1:30 a.m. West Haven Police Department requested officer assistance from area towns (police agencies) to help at a scene of a disturbance in their community.

   Milford Police assigned patrol officers to assist.

   Shortly after 2:15 a.m. a Milford Officer that was assigned to the West Haven incident completed his assignment there and was returning to Milford traveling on Route 1 through Orange. As the Milford Police cruiser approached the intersection of Route 1 and Dogwood Road in Orange a car traveling on Route 1 in the opposite direction made a sudden left turn into the path of the Milford Police cruiser.

  

   The Milford Officer was unable to avoid collision and struck the vehicle.

  

   Orange Emergency Medical Services (E.M.S.) and Fire Service responded to the scene.   The two occupants of the privately owned vehicle were seriously injured. A female occupant was extricated from the vehicle. She was transported by E.M.S. to St. Raphael’s Emergency Room where she was pronounced deceased. The second occupant of that vehicle was pronounced deceased at the scene.

   The Milford Police Officer sustained non-life threatening injury and was transported to Yale New Haven Hospital Emergency Room with non-life threatening injury.

   The Orange Police Chief has requested that the Connecticut State Police respond to conduct the investigation into this accident. The State Police Accident Reconstruction Squad and State Police Accident investigators have responded to the scene to conduct the investigation.

   The privately owned car involved in this crash is owned by Kenneth Krakowski and is a 2008 Mazda CT Registration 106 XCV.

   The deceased occupants are identified as:

ASHLIE M KRAKOWSKI dob-11/30/89 of   1039 Fernbrook Rd Orange, CT

DAVID P. SERVIN dob- 7/15/89 of   422 Sheldon CT Orange, CT.  

The Milford Officer is identified as Officer Jason Anderson.

The accident remains under investigation. 

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LT J. Paul Vance  

Connecticut State Police
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