Massachusetts: Alleged Drunken Firefighter Crashes, Kills Cop

Nov. 7, 2005
The 24-year veteran firefighter is hospitalized in serious condition, facing motor-vehicle homicide charges.

As a police sergeant and a volunteer firefighter in the same town, Robert Cabral and Wayne Smith often crossed paths. Invariably, they would find themselves at the scene of some tragedy, trying to comfort the living or breathe life back into the dead.

But yesterday, when their paths intersected in the early-morning darkness on a lonely stretch of Route 6 in Swansea, Smith was drunk, police say, his judgment impaired enough to crash head-on into Cabral

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