Driver seriously injured in I-95 crash in Newbury ⁠14%

By Bryan Hecht⁠27%

7/17/2026, 12:54:19 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 54.7% saturation with 105 hits. Analysis detected 324 faulty-reasoning hits from 192 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.6% and a BS Rank of ⁠14% (18,858 of 21,886 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 86.20% of the article peer group.

A driver was flown to Boston with “serious injuries” following a crash with a tractor-trailer in Newbury that closed a portion of the roadway to traffic for hours Thursday, fire officials said. 
The Newbury Fire Department responded to a report of a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 north near the on-ramp to Central Street and exit 88 around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. 
Arriving on the scene, firefighters identified a tractor-trailer and a car that appeared to have been involved in the crash, officials said. 
Traffic was limited to one lane as police and fire officials investigated the scene. 
Crews removed the driver of the car with hydraulic cutting tools, officials said, and they were flown to a Boston hospital by medical helicopter with what are believed to be serious injuries. 
On Friday, Newbury Fire Chief David Evans said the driver had undergone multiple surgeries, but their condition remains unknown. 
Traffic reopened on the highway in all directions around 6 p.m. 
Thursday night. 
Massachusetts State Police are investigating the cause of the accident. 
Bryan Hecht can be reached at bryan.hecht@globe.com. 
Follow him on Instagram @bhechtjournalism. 
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192 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers37%attributed speech121writer words
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Writer's voice • 8 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 32 words • 100.0% coverageNewbury Fire Department • 30 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 22 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 32 words • 0.0% coverageDavid Evans • 19 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 2 words • 0.0% coverageMassachusetts State Police • 10 words • 0.0% coverageBryan Hecht • 7 words • 100.0% coverageBryan Hecht • 5 words • 100.0% coverage
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David Evans

100%flagged-word coverage
19 attributed words27% of attributed speech87% writer coverage
0%15.0%30.0%Unattributed Quote-26.4 ptsWriter: 26.4%David Evans: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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