TILTON — Two accidents and two medical emergencies within an hour sent several five people to area hospitals Wednesday afternoon, keeping officers and firefighters from the town and surrounding communities busy.

A head-on collision and a six-vehicle pileup occurred less than a mile apart on Laconia Road, resulting in several people taken to the hospital for non-life-threatening injuries.

Tilton-Northfield Interim Fire Chief Sean Valovanie said the first call came in at 12:23 p.m. on Nov. 19, when Tilton Police and firefighters were called to a head-on collision on Laconia Road, near Lancaster Hill Road.

According to Police Lt. Andrew Salmon, a vehicle traveling west crossed the center line causing the crash, which sent two people to Concord Hospital-Laconia with non-life-threatening inj

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