On Tuesday evening while driving
down Mile Hill Road in Belmont, M.A., three teenagers were involved in a car
accident. The driver suffered no serious injuries while the two passengers were
taken to the hospital.
The driver of the car,
seventeen-year-old Jamie Peterson of Elm St. in Belmont, flipped the car at
around 9 P.M. This occurred after he swerved and hit an embankment. According
to Lieutenant Judith Barkus of the Belmont Police Dept., the two passengers
were female but their names are not being released at this time.
The first witness on the scene was
seventeen-year-old Tom Carroll, Jr., who had been driving behind Peterson at
the time of the accident. He said that he saw the car speed around the corner
and after that it was on its roof. “I though the worst,” Carroll said, “They
were flying. It’s hard to see kids your age in something like this.”
Josie M. Crandall of 27 Mile Hill
Road was another witness to the accident and notified the police after she saw
the car flip. “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,” she said.
Peterson managed to crawl out of
the car on his own, but it took rescuers 45 minutes to free the girls using the
Jaws of Life. The victims were taken to Memorial Hospital in Belmont where one
was in stable condition. The other was airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in
Boston where she is being treated for injuries that are yet to be released.
Safety conditions are now being
looked into for Mile Hill Road seeing as this is not the first accident to
occur there. Two local teenagers were killed in the same spot on December 24,
2005. The road has no streetlights and its safety is becoming an issue.
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