Tractor-trailer truck driver charged with vehicular homicide after plowing into 2 cars on Mass. Pike, killing Ludlow man, injuring 2 women
Updated Apr 26, 2021;
BECKET – A Connecticut tractor-trailer driver has been charged with motor vehicle homicide after he plowed into two cars on the Massachusetts Turnpike, killing a Ludlow man and injuring a Ludlow woman and a Springfield driver.
Gary Litwin, 69, of Ludlow, was killed and Diane Litwin, 66, of Ludlow, was injured after Stanley Kardys, 67, crashed into their Toyota Camry at about 4:35 p.m., Friday, on Interstate-90, said Andy McKeever, spokesman for Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington.
Kardys, who faces a single count of motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, was heading eastbound toward mile marker 15 when traffic slowed. He crashed his Freightliner tractor-trailer truck into the Camry. The Camry was then pushed into a Toyota Sienna van, he said.
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