Crash sends driver, car plunging into the Charles
A driver clinging to a private boat in the Charles River was rescued Tuesday morning after he was involved in a crash on Memorial Drive in Cambridge, according to police.
The other driver in the crash will be charged after running a traffic light and striking the vehicle that went into the river, State Police said.
State Police troopers and Cambridge firefighters responded at around 6:30 a.m. to the crash and water rescue in the Charles River in the vicinity of Memorial Drive and the Western Avenue Bridge.
One of the vehicles in the crash, a Subaru Outback station wagon, plunged into the Charles River. The driver, a 40-year-old Burlington man, ended up being helped by a boater.
“One man clinging to a private boat was removed via low-angle tech rescue, treated for injuries, immobilized, & transported to a medical facility,” Cambridge Fire wrote.
“CFD Divers completed an underwater search of the car & area with negative results,” the fire department added. “The driver was the only occupant.”
The vehicle was fished out of the water.
The driver was transported to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to get evaluated for possible minor injuries.
The other vehicle involved in the crash was a Ford pickup owned by a construction company and operated by a 29-year-old Lynn man who will be charged in connection to the crash, State Police said.
He will be summonsed to court on charges of failure to stop/yield and operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license.
“A witness told Troopers that the Ford’s operator ran a traffic light and struck the Subaru, causing the Subaru to go off the road and into the river,” a State Police spokesman said in a statement. The Lynn man was not injured. The investigation into the crash is ongoing.