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Dube turned himself in to state police in Montville on Tuesday. Connecticut State Police

Police have arrested a tractor-trailer driver in connection with a crash that killed three people, including two children, on Interstate 95 in Waterford last year.

Two-year-old Dacari Robinson, his 9-year-old sister, Sanaa, and Dacari's father, Darin Robinson, 26, died following an Oct. 12, 2014, crash in which a tractor-trailer driven by Gerard S. Dube of Swansea, Mass., rear-ended the family's Nissan Sentra.

Police subsequently issued a warrant for Dube's arrest. He turned himself in to state police in Montville on Tuesday, the day after the one-year anniversary of the crash.

He is charged with reckless driving, following too closely and three counts of misconduct with a motor vehicle, a felony charge.

Dube, 59, also faces charges of driving a commercial vehicle with an expired medical card and driving a commercial vehicle with a defective ABS sensor light.

He was released Tuesday after posting $50,000 bail.

The highway was congested because of a previous accident, one in a series of crashes on I-95 that day.

Police said at the time that the children's mother, Baughnita Leary of Meriden, had slowed the car because of traffic congestion before the tractor-trailer plowed into the Sentra and two other vehicles in the area just south of Exit 81.

Leary survived the accident, suffering serious injuries.

The tractor-trailer Dube was driving was registered to Gold Medal Bakery Inc. in Fall River, Mass., police said.

Leary and members of the victims' families filed lawsuits this summer alleging that Dube was negligent and careless, and that Gold River Bakery Inc. failed to properly monitor the inspection and maintenance of the tractor-trailer or properly maintain a driving log of the driver.

The suits ask for an unspecified amount of money above $15,000 to pay for medical bills, punitive damages and attorneys’ fees.

State police have yet to release any reports related to the crash.

A separate accident later that night also in Waterford, involving another tractor-trailer, killed Saumya Arora, 33, a dentist from Massachusetts.

m.shanahan@theday.com

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