Billerica police mourning loss of sergeant killed in construction accident [Video]

A police sergeant has died following a construction accident on a major road in Billerica Friday afternoon.

Sergeant Ian Taylor, 49, was helping move a large tractor-trailer at a roadside construction site at the intersection of Boston Road and Pollard Road when he was struck by an excavator around 2:00 p.m.

Taylor was rushed to Lahey Hospital in Burlington where he was pronounced deceased, Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan said in a press conference around 7:30 p.m.

Billerica Police Chief Roy Frost said that Taylor was a 21-year law enforcement veteran and had been with the department since 2011.

“He’s an unbelievable police officer. We were lucky to have him and have him work with us,” Frost said. “Sergeant Taylor has done a lot for the community of Billerica and this region. He is an unbelievable police officer, a detective assigned to the federal drug task force for a long …