Paul Tracey Waltham Police officer & Rodrick Jackson died in accident

Totten Pond Road accident: 58-year-old Paul Tracey of Waltham was the officer on duty Wednesday who was fatally struck by a New Hampshire driver while working a detail on Totten Pond Road.
Tracey, a 28-year veteran of the department, leaves behind his wife and two children.

National Grid utility worker Rodrick Jackson, 36, of Cambridge, was also killed in the crash.

A multiple-vehicle crash occurred just after 4 p.m. on Totten Pond Road. The driver, identified as Simon, was in a pickup truck and initially pulled to the side, allowing a car behind him to pass. However, he suddenly attempted a U-turn, colliding with a jeep that was traveling straight behind him.

After the collision, the truck continued down the road and struck a police officer, Tracey, and a National Grid worker. The suspect allegedly stole a Waltham police vehicle, brandished a knife, and fled before crashing on Winter Street. After attempting to escape on foot, the suspect was apprehended and arrested.

Simon is charged with two counts of manslaughter and armed robbery. One National Grid worker died, and two others were injured. The fallen Waltham officer was honored in a procession outside the medical examiner’s office in downtown Boston.

Peter Simon, 54, of Woodsville, New Hampshire, was originally charged with two counts of manslaughter and armed robbery.

In court Thursday, prosecutors introduced several additional charges, including failure to stop for police, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, larceny of a motor vehicle, assault with a dangerous weapon, leaving the scene of an accident after causing personal injury and death, leaving the scene of an accident after causing property damage, assault with a dangerous weapon, marked lanes violation and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.