Solemn procession carries trooper from hospital to OCME after deadly crash

ALL RIGHT. WE ARE INTERRUPTING PROGRAMING HERE TO BRING YOU THE DIGNIFIED TRANSFER OF 30 YEAR OLD KEVIN TRAINOR, STATE POLICE TROOPER WHO WAS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY THIS MORNING BY A WRONG WAY DRIVER ON ROUTE ONE. THAT’S RIGHT. IT HAPPENED AGAIN AROUND 2:00 THIS MORNING. YOU’RE WATCHING IT RIGHT NOW. WE CAN TELL YOU STATE TROOPERS, FIREFIGHTERS ARE ALL LINED UP FOR THIS PROCESSION ROUTE FROM MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL, WHERE TROOPER TRAINER LATER DIED AFTER THAT CRASH AND BE HEADING TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IN THE SOUTH END, RIGHT THERE. ON ALBANY STREET. AGAIN, THIS ALL HAPPENED AROUND 2:00 THIS MORNING IN LYNNFIELD. YOU CAN SEE THERE AS THEY ARE GETTING CLOSER TO THAT AREA, THERE THEY ARE, THOSE TROOPERS LINED UP PAYING THEIR RESPECTS FOR THIS TRAGEDY. YES. YOU CAN SEE THE CONVOY ENTERING THE O’NEILL TUNNEL SOUTHBOUND. WE DO EXPECT THAT TRAFFIC ON 93 SOUTH WILL COME TO A STANDSTILL AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY FROM MASS GENERAL, WHICH IS RIGHT OFF STORROW DRIVE. THEY’RE IN THE VICINITY. YOU KNOW, KIND OF THE CHARLES STREET JUST BEHIND THE TD GARDEN, KIND OF THE WEST END AREA THERE. THEY’RE GOING TO MAKE THEIR WAY SOUTH THROUGH THE 93 TUNNEL AND THEN COME OUT THE SOUTH SIDE HERE. AS THEY MAKE THEIR WAY TO THE SOUTH END. THE MAYOR’S OFFICE, THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IS ON ALBANY STREET. AND THERE YOU HAVE THE STOPPED TRAFFIC ON THE ZAKIM BUNKER HILL BRIDGE. THERE AGAIN, TRAFFIC HAS COME TO A STANDSTILL ON 93 SOUTH. THEY CAN MOVE THE BODY OF 30 YEAR OLD KEVIN TRAINOR. WE KNOW FROM THE STATE POLICE THAT HE WAS ENGAGED. HE WAS DUE TO BE MARRIED IN A FEW MONTHS TIME. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS FIANCEE. HE’S ALSO SURVIVED BY SEVERAL SIBLINGS AND HIS MOTHER, FOUR SIBLINGS AND HIS MOTHER. WE DID GET A PRESS CONFERENCE AROUND 1130. WE DID HEAR FROM GOVERNOR MAURA HEALEY, THE STATE POLICE COLONEL JEFFREY NOBLE, AND THE STATE POLICE ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS PRESIDENT BRIAN WILLIAMS, AND THEY GAVE US THE TRAGIC UPDATE ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED AROUND 2:00 THIS MORNING WHEN THIS COLLISION HAPPENED THERE IN LYNNFIELD. WE KNOW THAT THIS WAS RIGHT AT THE TIME THAT HE WAS HEADING HOME FROM WORK. HIS SHIFT JUST ENDED AT 2:00. AND AT 201 ONE MINUTE LATER, THERE WAS A CALL OF A WRONG-WAY DRIVER AND HE RESPONDED. AND THAT’S WHEN THAT COLLISION HAPPENED. AND SADLY, HE DIED FROM THAT COLLISION LATER AT MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL. THAT ONE MINUTE WE HEARD FROM COLONEL NOBLE TALKING ABOUT HOW TROOPER TRAINOR IS A HERO. HE’LL BE REMEMBERED AS A HERO. HE SAVED LIVES THIS MORNING. AS THAT HAPPENED THERE, BECAUSE MORE CRASHES COULD HAVE HAPPENED DOWN THE ROAD, INJURING MORE PEOPLE OR EVEN, YOU KNOW, LEAVING MORE PEOPLE TO HAVE DIED THERE, REMEMBERING HIM AS A HERO. THEY ALSO TALKED ABOUT THAT HE WAS ONLY A TROOPER FOR THREE YEARS. BEFORE THAT, HE WAS A CORRECTIONS OFFICER STARTING HIS CAREER THERE IN ESSEX COUNTY. HE WAS ALSO A FIELD TRAINING OFFICER, TEACHING OTHERS AND REALLY KNOWN AS SOMEONE THAT YOU WANTED AS YOUR BACKUP. THAT’S WHAT WE HEARD FROM COLONEL NOBLE EARLIER TODAY, TALKING ABOUT HIS COLLEAGUES AND HOW THEY SAW TROOPER TRAINOR, ALSO THE GOVERNOR, EXPRESSING HER DEEPEST CONDOLENCES, HER SYMPATHIES TO THE FAMILY MEMBERS OF TROOPER TRAINOR, HIS FIANCE, AND, OF COURSE, ALL OF HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE FIELD IN IN THE STATE TROOPERS THERE THANKING LAW ENFORCEMENT ALSO, WHO RESPONDED TO THIS INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED AT 2:00 THIS MORNING. SO YOU CAN ALSO SEE IN THE VIDEO YOU’VE GOT ON THE SCREEN THERE, THAT GRAY JEEP, THE DRIVER OF THAT WRONG WAY JEEP ALSO DIED. THE COLLISION BETWEEN THE TWO VEHICLES VERY VIOLENT. IN HIS THREE YEARS AT THE STATE POLICE. WE KNOW HE HAD BECOME A TROOPER COACH. SO PASSING ALONG WHAT HE HAD LEARNED UP IN THAT TIME FRAME UP TO OTHERS AND WORKING WITH OTHER YOUNGER TROOPERS TO MENTOR THEM. SERA CONGI IS ALSO STANDING BY. SHE’S AT MASS GENERAL. WE. THE HELICOPTER. SARAH HAS MOVED TO THE SOUTH END OF THE O’NEILL TUNNEL AS WE EXPECT THEM TO EMERGE MOMENTARILY. WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. BUT SARAH, WHAT HAVE YOU SEEN FROM YOUR VANTAGE POINT? WELL, WE ARE RIGHT AT THE EXIT AT MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL, WHERE TROOPER TRAINOR WAS IN THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S VAN, LEAVING THE HOSPITAL AS THAT PROCESSION BEGAN. THERE WERE MANY STATE POLICE TROOPERS AND OFFICERS WHO WERE HERE, AND THEY HAD BEEN HERE FOR MOST OF THE MORNING, WAITING FOR THIS PROCESSION TO BEGIN. AND AS SOON AS IT DID, TRAFFIC ON STORROW DRIVE WAS STOPPED. AND IF YOU KNOW THIS AREA, IT IS SO NOISY, THERE’S SO MUCH TRAFFIC, THERE’S A LOT OF PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC WITH THE HOSPITAL RIGHT HERE. BUT IT ALL CAME TO A STANDSTILL AS THAT MEDICAL EXAMINER’S VAN LEFT THE HOSPITAL WITH TROOPER TRAINOR. MANY OF THE STATE POLICE TROOPERS AND THE OFFICERS AS WELL, JUST STOPPING AND SALUTING AND TAKING A MOMENT TO PAY THEIR RESPECTS AS THAT PROCESSION GOT UNDERWAY HERE ALONG STORROW DRIVE. AND ALSO, WE’VE JUST BEEN CHATTING AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT THIS COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM THAT HE WAS A PART OF. THE CAT TEAM, AS IT’S CALLED. AND WE LEARNED THAT THIS WAS REALLY THE BEST OF THE FIELD THAT MANY OF THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE ON THAT TEAM ARE HAND SELECTED. SO THAT JUST GIVES YOU A SENSE OF THE CREDENTIALS OF PETER TRAINERS BACKGROUND, HIS REPUTATION, EVEN JUST AFTER A THREE YEARS WITH THE STATE POLICE. SO AGAIN, THIS PROCESSION HERE AT THIS VANTAGE POINT WAS VERY BRIEF. JUST LEAVING THE HOSPITAL VERY QUICKLY WITH THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S VAN. BUT THE AREA, WHICH IS NORMALLY SO BUSY WITH JUST BOSTON LIFE AND BOSTON WITH THE HOSPITAL RIGHT HERE, JUST CAME TO A STANDSTILL. AND EVEN SOME OF THOSE PEDESTRIANS ALSO STOPPING TO TAKE A MOMENT AND SHARE THEIR CONDOLENCES. BACK TO YOU GUYS IN THE STUDIO. THANKS TO SERA CONGI FOR RELAYING HER VANTAGE POINT AS WE WATCH. THAT IS THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S VAN CARRYING THE BODY OF 30 YEAR OLD MASSACHUSETTS STATE POLICE TROOPER KEVIN TRAINOR TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE. THEY ARE EXITING NOW ONTO ALBANY STREET. THE EMMYS BOSTON OFFICE IS ON ALBANY STREET. WE ALSO HAVE A CAMERA ON THE GROUND AT THE OFFICE. HIS BODY WILL GO THERE FOR EXAMINATION BEFORE EVENTUALLY BEING RELEASED TO THE FAMILY AND THE FUNERAL HOME. WE ARE STILL AWAITING FURTHER DETAILS WHEN IT COMES TO FINAL ARRANGEMENTS, SO AS WE CONTINUE TO WATCH THIS DIGNIFIED TRANSFER HAPPEN HERE TO THE SOUTH END ON ALBANY STREET, A REMINDER HERE THAT, YOU KNOW, TROOPER TRAINOR WORKS OUT OF THE DANVERS BARRACKS. A LOT OF HIS COLLEAGUES THERE LINED UP FOR THAT PROCESSION. THEY HAVE BEEN GOING TO AND FROM MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL THROUGHOUT THE MORNING FOLLOWING THIS CRASH. AND AND MANY OF THEM, OF COURSE, RESPONDING TO THAT CRASH AS WELL. YOU KNOW, ONE WORD WE KEPT HEARING FROM STATE POLICE COLONEL JEFFREY NOBLE IN REGARDS TO TROOPER TRAINOR. THEY KEPT TALKING ABOUT HIS ENTHUSIASM FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, THAT HE REALLY HAD THIS ENTHUSIASM. PEOPLE LOVE TO WORK WITH HIM. HE REALLY WANTED TO WORK FOR THE PUBLIC AND SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT? HE THIS, THIS MOMENT AND THIS SAD, TRAGIC UPDATE AND THE FACT THAT HE DIED IN THE LINE OF DUTY, THEY’RE SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, HE IS A HERO AND HE WILL BE REMEMBERED FOR SAVING OTHERS. AND THAT’S REALLY WHAT HE’S KNOWN FOR, THAT HE’S ALWAYS HELPING OTHERS. HE’S ALWAYS TRYING TO DO HIS BEST TO WORK FOR THE PUBLIC. AND SADLY, THIS IS WHERE WE ARE TODAY. AND OF COURSE, THIS PROCESSION, YOU KNOW, THIS WILL BE UNDERWAY FOR QUITE SOME TIME UNTIL WE GET TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE. WE SEE THEM LINED UP, GETTING READY TO SAY THEIR GOODBYES. THEY’RE NEARING THAT LOCATION THERE. THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IS KIND OF ADJACENT TO THE CAMPUS OF BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER. SO FROM ONE HOSPITAL TO ANOTHER, AS THEY MAKE THE TURN, HERE, THEY ARE NEARING THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE. AND, YOU KNOW, STATE POLICE, STATE POLICE TROOPER TRAINER THIS MORNING SAYING HIS ACTIONS IN RESPONDING TO THAT CALL TO TRY TO STOP THAT DRIVER, THAT WRONG-WAY DRIVER THAT WAS TRAVELING SOUTH IN THE NORTHBOUND LANES, REALLY SAVED LIVES THERE ON ROUTE ONE, BECAUSE WHO KNOWS HOW MANY OTHER DRIVERS MAY HAVE HAD A COLLISION WITH THAT VEHICLE HAD THE TROOPER NOT PLACED HIS VEHICLE IN THE PATH OF THAT WRONG-WAY JEEP. AGAIN, THAT WRONG-WAY DRIVER ALSO DIED. THEY WERE PRONOUNCED DEAD AT THE SCENE THIS MORNING. THE TROOPER WAS RUSHED TO MASS GENERAL WITH HOPES THAT HE COULD BE. HE COULD SURVIVE, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE CASE AND HE DIED LATER THIS MORNING. THE GOVERNOR, LAUDING HIS SERVICE AGAIN. THERE’S THE SALUTE FROM THE FIREFIGHTERS WHO ARE LINING THE STREET THERE AS THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S VAN. THIS PROCESSION, THIS STATE POLICE PROCESSION HAS ARRIVED. THE TROOPER BEING ESCORTED BY HIS COWORKERS, HIS COLLEAGUES FROM THE DANVERS POLICE BARRACKS DOING THIS UNHAPPY DUTY HERE. OF COURSE, HAVING TO TRANSFER THIS BODY TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE, A DIFFICULT DAY, ESPECIALLY FOR POLICE, YOU KNOW, FIRE STATE POLICE. YOU HEARD THE GOVERNOR MENTION EARLIER, YOU KNOW, FIND A POLICE OFFICER, FIND A TROOPER, GIVE THEM A HUG, AND TAKE THE TIME TO EXPRESS GRATITUDE TO THEM. SHE SAID, DO THAT FOR TROOPER TRAINOR BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THE WORST THAT CAN HAPPEN RIGHT ON THE JOB. AND IT’S THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE, RIGHT? HE SACRIFICED HIMSELF. ABSOLUTELY. AND YOU SEE IT MAKE THAT TURN THERE AS THEY GETTING READY TO GET RIGHT THERE TO THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE. IT’S IT’S REALLY A SOMBER DAY FOR THESE, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SERVICE HEROES. YEAH. FOR POLICE. THE MEN AND WOMEN IN BLUE ALL ACROSS THE STATE, THE REGION AND THE COUNTRY. WHEN THE FUNERAL DOES OCCUR, YOU WILL INEVITABLY SEE POLICE OFFICERS FROM ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY ATTEND AS A WAY TO SHOW THEIR RESPECT AND THEIR SOLIDARITY. AS THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S VAN HAS NOW ARRIVED, BEING SALUTED IN THE SOUTH END AT THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE. WE’LL CONTINUE TO FOLLOW THIS. OF COURSE, WE’LL HAVE MUCH MORE COVERAGE COMING UP LATER ON. NEWSCENTER FIVE AT FOUR. WE CAN SEE THE VAN HAS JUST NOW ARRIVED AT THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE. AS THEY’RE GETTING READY TO BRING TROOPER TRAYNOR’S BODY INSIDE FOR EXAMINATION FOLLOWING THIS COLLISION THAT HAPPENED AT 2:00 THIS MORNING. JUST ONE MINUTE. WE HEARD COLONEL NOBLE SAY IT HAPPENED IN THE BLINK OF AN EYE. ONE MINUTE AFTER HE WAS SUPPOSED TO BE OFF THE CLOCK AND HEAD HOME. JUST ONE MINUTE IS WHEN THIS COLLISION HAPPENED. A WRONG-WAY DRIVER IN LYNNFIELD ON ROUTE ONE SLAMMING INTO HIM. WE SEE THOSE IMAGES EARLIER OF THAT CRASH AND HOW BAD IT LOOKED. THE DRIVER DID DIE, AND NOW WE’VE LEARNED TROOPER TRAINOR WAS TAKEN TO MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL AND LATER DIED OF HIS INJURIES. NOW ARRIVING AT THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IN THE SOUTH END ON ALBANY STREET. WE’RE GOING TO KEEP WATCHING THIS FOR A MOMENT LONGER HERE, AS WE HAVE WATCHED, THERE IS THE FLAG DRAPED COFFIN ARRIVING AT THE MEDICAL EXAMINER’S OFFICE IN THE SOUTH END OF BOSTON, ESCORTED BY HIS FELLOW TROOPERS WITH THE DANVE

Solemn procession carries trooper from hospital to OCME after deadly crash

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Updated: 2:04 PM EDT May 6, 2026

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Members of the Massachusetts State Police, firefighters and local police officers lined Boston streets on Wednesday as a fallen colleague was moved from Massachusetts General Hospital to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Trooper Kevin Trainor, 30, was killed in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on Route 1 near the Saugus/Lynnfield line. The driver of the other vehicle was also killed. Col. Geoffrey Noble explained that the crash occurred minutes after Trainor’s shift was due to end. “(Trainor) did what all troopers will do — on duty or off duty — that is, be there to help. And that’s what he did,” said Noble.For hours on Wednesday, troopers and Boston police officers gathered on Charles Street, outside Mass. General, to show their respect. They saluted as the procession departed just after 1 p.m. Hundreds of others waited near the OCME to salute as the procession arrived.A small number of his colleagues stood beside the van as the flag-draped coffin was removed and taken inside the facility. “The Trooper was responding to reports of a wrong-way driver and put himself in harm’s way to protect others,” Gov. Maura Healey wrote in a statement. “This act of service and courage is what our State Police are called to do every day. They show up ready to face danger so the rest of us can be safe. Today, Massachusetts is mourning one of those heroes.”Trainor, who is survived by his mother, Barbara, his fiancée, Jessica, and several siblings, began his career as a corrections officer in Essex County and has been with the Massachusetts State Police Department since his graduation from the academy in 2023.

BOSTON —

Members of the Massachusetts State Police, firefighters and local police officers lined Boston streets on Wednesday as a fallen colleague was moved from Massachusetts General Hospital to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

Trooper Kevin Trainor, 30, was killed in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on Route 1 near the Saugus/Lynnfield line. The driver of the other vehicle was also killed.

Col. Geoffrey Noble explained that the crash occurred minutes after Trainor’s shift was due to end.

“(Trainor) did what all troopers will do — on duty or off duty — that is, be there to help. And that’s what he did,” said Noble.

For hours on Wednesday, troopers and Boston police officers gathered on Charles Street, outside Mass. General, to show their respect. They saluted as the procession departed just after 1 p.m.

Hundreds of others waited near the OCME to salute as the procession arrived.

A small number of his colleagues stood beside the van as the flag-draped coffin was removed and taken inside the facility.

“The Trooper was responding to reports of a wrong-way driver and put himself in harm’s way to protect others,” Gov. Maura Healey wrote in a statement. “This act of service and courage is what our State Police are called to do every day. They show up ready to face danger so the rest of us can be safe. Today, Massachusetts is mourning one of those heroes.”

Trainor, who is survived by his mother, Barbara, his fiancée, Jessica, and several siblings, began his career as a corrections officer in Essex County and has been with the Massachusetts State Police Department since his graduation from the academy in 2023.