A truck driver that lost control of his rig and crashed into a toll booth in Dover, New Hampshire, earlier this year, has been indicted on multiple charges, including second-degree assault.
38-year-old truck driver Roland Joy of Malden, Massachusettes, crashed into a toll booth on the Spaulding Turnpike on March 5th while driving his blue Kenworth semi truck. On Tuesday, September 22nd, he was charged with three counts of reckless conduct and one count of second degree assault. All of the charges are class B felonies. He faces up to 7 years in state prison for each charge, as well as $4,000 fine.
Under state statute, Joy’s truck is considered a deadly weapon because he was allegedly driving at an “excessive rate of speed”.
The assault charge stems from a collision with a car that occurred after the truck struck the toll booth. The driver of the car, John Worley, suffered bodily injury, including “multiple contusions and abrasions, a shoulder injury and/or an intercranial lesion.”
He was also charged with three counts of reckless conduct after the grand jury decided that three other drivers were “in danger of serious bodily injury”, after their vehicles were struck by debris from the toll booth.
The unmanned toll booth was destroyed as a result of the crash. Joy was not seriously injured.