Mass. Officer Honored
Signs honoring a state trooper who was seriously injured by a drunken driver has been dedicated at a highway interchange on Cape Cod where she directed rush hour traffic for years.
Ellen Engelhardt sustained a severe brain injury in 2003 when a car driven by an 18-year-old Wayland man slammed into the back of her cruiser in the breakdown lane of Route 25. She remains confined to a special care facility in Middleborough.
The plaques bearing Engelhardt's name were unveiled Tuesday at Exit 7 off the mid-Cape highway in Yarmouth, where the trooper was a fixture directing morning traffic. The honor is a rare one for living police officers.
