Three females swerved off the road in a mustang on Mile Hill
Road in Belmont, Massachusetts Sunday evening around 9 o’clock after their car
hit an embankment, flipped onto its roof, and trapped passengers for 45
minutes.
According to Lt. Judith Barkmus, Belmont Police Dept., the
driver was 17-year-old Jamie Peterson. Peterson crawled out of the car by
herself. Rescuers took 45 minutes to
free the two passengers from the crumpled car.
The victims were taken to Memorial Hospital in Belmont.
One of the passengers was in stable condition. The other was
airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in Boston. A Mass. General Hospital
spokesperson would not identify the victim but claimed that there was a car-accident
victim being treated for brain injuries from a Sunday evening incident.
Josie M. Crandall saw the white mustang heading north on
Mile Hill Road around 9 P.M. Crandall saw the accident from her home and phoned
it into 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,” Crandall said.
Mile Hill Road does not have streetlights. On December 24,
2005, two local teenagers were killed at the same spot.
Tom Carroll Jr., 17, was driving on Mile Hill Road the same
time as the mustang. The first on the scene, he told police that his pick-up
was behind the Mustang, and he saw it speed around a curve. When he next saw
it, the mustang was on its roof.
Carroll looked under the flipped car and told police he saw
empty Budweiser cans on the ground. “I thought the worst. They were flying. It’s
hard to see kids your age in something like this,” Carroll said. “You realize
when you see it what could happen, especially on this road. That guy, the
driver, was definitely drunk.”
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