Driver seriously injured in I-95 crash in Newbury 14%

By Bryan Hecht38%

7/17/2026, 12:54:19 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 9 faulty reasoning types, including Availability Heuristic, Negativity Bias, and Unattributed Quote, with Ambiguity (Equivocation) as the most egregious example at 54.7% saturation with 105 hits. Analysis detected 324 faulty-reasoning hits from 192 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 30.6% and a BS Rank of 14% (14,800 of 17,127 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 86.40% of the article peer group.

A driver was flown to Boston with “serious injuries” following a crash with a tractor-trailer in Newbury that closed a portion of the roadway to traffic for hours Thursday, fire officials said. 
The Newbury Fire Department responded to a report of a two-vehicle crash on Interstate 95 north near the on-ramp to Central Street and exit 88 around 3:45 p.m. on Thursday. 
Arriving on the scene, firefighters identified a tractor-trailer and a car that appeared to have been involved in the crash, officials said. 
Traffic was limited to one lane as police and fire officials investigated the scene. 
Crews removed the driver of the car with hydraulic cutting tools, officials said, and they were flown to a Boston hospital by medical helicopter with what are believed to be serious injuries. 
On Friday, Newbury Fire Chief David Evans said the driver had undergone multiple surgeries, but their condition remains unknown. 
Traffic reopened on the highway in all directions around 6 p.m. 
Thursday night. 
Massachusetts State Police are investigating the cause of the accident. 
Bryan Hecht can be reached at bryan.hecht@globe.com. 
Follow him on Instagram @bhechtjournalism. 
Confirmation Bias
9.9%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
33.3%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
11.5%
Overconfidence Bias
0%
Framing Effect
0%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
5.7%
Pessimism Bias
9.9%
Negativity Bias
20.8%
Self-Serving Bias
0%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
0%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
54.7%
Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
0%
Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
16.7%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
6.3%

192 words analyzed.

Analysis

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