Seventeen year old Jamie Peterson was able to crawl out of his car on his own after he swerved and flipped off Mile High Rd in Belmont Massachusetts late Monday night.
The other passengers, two young females whose names have not yet been released, had to be pulled from the wreckage using the jaws of life. The girls were transported to Memorial Hospital in Belmont. One was in stable condition, while the other was airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in Boston.
Tom Carroll Jr. was the first on the scene. The seventeen year old had been driving behind Perterson’s white Mustang when he saw it speed ahead around a bend. Upon turning the corner, he saw the car on its roof.
“I thought the worst.” He said. “They were flying. It’s hard to see kids your age in something like this.”
Josie M. Crandall, a resident of Mile High Rd, reported seeing the accident outside her window around 9 pm and immediately notified the police.
“I’ve never seen a car going so fast on this road. It’s a dirt road, and it’s really easy to lose control,” said Crandall.
This road was the site of a fatal car accident nearly a decade ago in which two people were killed. Although some might attribute these accidents to the lack of streetlights on the dirt road, such doesn’t appear to be the case for young Peterson.
Upon reaching the upturned car, Carroll told police that he saw at least three empty Budweiser cans on the ground.
“You realize when you see it what could happen, especially on this road.” He said.
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Nice pacing due to careful word use and varied sentence structure. Watch the AP numbers rules. And you might consider leading with the injured girls instead of the one that was unhurt. I see that you were trying to focus on the dramatic, but in this case we have at least one member of the community, a sister, daughter, playmate, niece, friend, student, etc., seriously hurt, so that trumps drama.
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