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Milton Police Chief Richard Krauss surveys the damage after a pickup truck was T-boned by another vehicle near the Exit 17 interchange on Farmington Road in Milton on Tuesday. (Courtesy photo)

MILTON - Milton Selectmen will be reaching out to state Department of Transportation officials on whether temporary stoplights can be installed at the Route 16 interchange on Farmington Road after two accidents occurred near an overpass construction site there in the last week, one on Tuesday in which a local resident's truck was T-boned by another vehicle.

A state construction crew is expected to be working on the bridge for an extended period of time this summer.

Jeff Barry of Milton, who was driving the T-boned truck, showed up at the Milton Board of Selectmen's meeting on Tuesday night and said the impact rolled his vehicle a couple of time and he was lucky not to have been seriously injured.

Barry said he was headed toward Farmington on Route 75 when the accident occurred.

According to a post on the Milton Fire and Rescue Facebook page, the vehicle that crashed into Barry's truck failed to stop while exiting an off ramp.

Selectmen Chair Tom Gray agreed and said it was the second accident in the area of the construction he'd heard of in the last week.

There was discussion of whether flaggers or a light would be best, but the consensus seemed to be that a temporary light would be the best solution.

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