Three dead in a day on Mass. roads
Three people were killed and three hospitalized in a series of motor vehicle accidents starting with dual fatalities late Monday.
The last fatality occurred Tuesday morning in Harvard Square, where a woman in her 60s was struck and killed by a boom truck shortly before 7 a.m. as she attempted to cross Brattle Street near the Out of Town News kiosk in the center of the square.
According to a release from Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Cambridge Police Commissioner Branville Bard Jr., a preliminary investigation determined that the woman was not in a crosswalk when she was struck. The truck driver remained on scene. No charges have been filed.
The woman, whose name has not been released pending notification of next of kin, was rushed to an area hospital, where she was later pronounced dead.
The incident is being investigated by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, the Cambridge Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section.
Tuesday afternoon, three people were hospitalized after a tractor trailer rolled over onto a 2017 Nissan Sentra on the Mass Pike Tuesday, state police said.
The trailer overturned on the eastbound Exit 14 ramp to Route 128 in Weston at 12:40 p.m., crushing the vehicle and sending the car’s 59-year-old driver via MedFlight to Lahey Hospital in Burlington with serious injuries; the passenger, a 24-year-old woman, sustained minor injuries, according to an MSP statement.
The truck driver, a 28-year-old man from Monroe, La., and a 42year-old passenger only sustained minor injuries, police said.
The crash remains under investigation; no charges have been filed.
Late Monday, two men were killed in separate crashes on Interstate 95 in Attleboro and North Attleboro, state police said.
A 50-year-old male pedestrian was fatally struck by a vehicle near Exit 1 southbound around 9:45 p.m. The driver in that collision fled the scene, police said.
At 10:01 p.m, a 19-year-old Attleboro man died after his Toyota RAV4 rolled over into the woods near Exit 5 northbound, state police said. No other vehicles were involved in that crash.
Officials said they don’t know if the two incidents are connected.
Victims of the crashes have not been identified pending notification of next of kin, police said.