Four teens were killed yesterday and another was transported to a Boston hospital after a violent crash in East Bridgewater, according to the Plymouth County DA.
District Attorney Timothy Cruz said the crash involved a car carrying five men in their “high teens.” Three were pronounced dead at the scene, one was pronounced dead after transport to a Brockton Hospital and one was transported to Boston Medical Center, Cruz said.
Cruz said police were in the process of notifying families and that information about the victims would not be released last night.
“This is a tragic, tragic situation, and we hope that any and all younger drivers that may be out there for any reasons at this ... festive time of year, that everybody is careful and goes slow and remembers that their parents love them,” Cruz said.
David J. Sheedy, chairman of the East Bridgewater Board of Selectmen, said none of the four teens killed were from the town.
“It’s a call that no parent and no grandparent should ever have to get,” Sheedy told the Herald. “Even that email coming to me, it sent chills up and down my spine.”
A crisis center is set up at the town’s fire station for the first responders who arrived at the grisly scene.
“We are trying to get them through what’s going to be nightmarish for a while for them,” Sheedy said.
The state police accident reconstruction team along with East Bridgewater police were investigating, Cruz said. Responding to multiple 911 calls, local police and fire arrived at the intersection of Laurel Street and Route 106 to find a single car with five male occupants, Cruz said.
Investigators will look at speed and weather, as well as “other factors,” Cruz said. The DA would not comment when asked if other cars involved in the crash, but said police were interviewing witnesses.
Aaron Bell, a 23-year-old from Mansfield, was at the scene as the mangled white car was loaded onto a flatbed.
“I feel sorrowful for all the families that lost everything,” he said. “I’m hoping it’s not anyone we knew.”