State police have arrested a woman who is accused of stealing a Department of Transportation truck after the driver stopped to check on her and others who has been involved in a crash, then leading police on a chase it in.

State police responded to a crash on Route 15 South, near exit 42A, in Orange just before 9 a.m. Thursday.

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A Connecticut Department of Transportation employee told state police that he had been operating a Service Patrol vehicle, stopped when he came upon a crash, stepped out of the work truck to check on the people who were involved in the crash and a woman who had been involved in the collision stole the Service Patrol truck and was trying to flee the scene, according to police.

The woman led s

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