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On Monday evening, a Mustang with three teenagers plunged into an embankment near 27 Mile Hill Rd. in Belmont, Mass; two passengers were hospitalized.
The car’s driver was seventeen-year-old Jamie Peterson of Elm Street in Belmont who, according to witnesses, sped ahead around a curve on a dirt road when his car swerved off the road, flipped, and landed on the hood. The driver left the car unfazed by the crash, according to eye witness, while the two female passengers were rushed to medical care; one was airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in Boston, according to Lt. Judith Barkus of the Belmont Police Dept. Rescue crews took 45 minutes removing the passengers from the car with the jaws of life.
The first on the scene was seventeen-year-old Tom Carroll, Jr. who was driving behind the car when it crashed.
“I thought the worst,” said Carroll. “They were flying.”
Carroll informed police that when he tried to help the victims inside the car, he saw three empty Budweiser beer bottles though there are no streetlights.
Josie M. Crandall lives at 27 Mile Hill Rd, which is across from the embankment. She witnessed the event as she looked out her window around 9 p.m. and notified the police.
“I’ve never seen a car going so fast on this road,” said Crandall. “It’s a dirt road, and it’s really easy to lose control.”
On December 24, 1998, another driver had lost control of their car causing the death of the driver and passenger.