A 24-year old Lawrence man will be charged criminally after allegedly crashing into and seriously injuring a State Trooper Saturday. Josue Levi Cuevas Santana faces charges of negligent operation, speeding, using a mobile device while driving, and failure to move over for an emergency vehicle, according to State Police spokesperson Tim McGuirk. The crash happened around 2:15 p.m., when a trooper stopped his cruiser on Interstate 95 South in Salisbury, with his emergency lights on, to move a ladder that was in the left travel lane, McGuirk wrote in a statement. The trooper had removed the ladder, went back into his cruiser, and fastened his seatbelt when he was struck. Troopers from the Newbury Barracks and Salisbury EMS responded to the scene “to render aid to the Trooper who suffered serious injuries,” McGuirk wrote. The trooper, who was not named in the statement, was taken to a hospital in New Hampshire for treatment, while Santana was transported to Lawrence General Hospital. Several lanes of the highway remained closed Saturday afternoon while authorities cleared the scene. “In the days and weeks ahead, the State Police will fully investigate the facts and circumstances of this crash, including the actions of the driver as well as the ladder in the roadway that prompted the Trooper to stop in the first place,” State Police Colonel Geoffrey D. Noble said in a statement. “We do so while keeping our focus on our injured colleague, who has the full support of the Massachusetts State Police as…
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