Friday, November 9, 2012
The October Parmenter Street car accident that resulted in a victim — who has since been in a coma — being life flighted has pushed a family friend to action.
It was an accident that sent three to the hospital, with Mike Mashkevich making the trip by helicopter to UMass Worcester where he is in a coma recovering. “He is making progress to getting better but he has so many broken bones," said Jessie Seiders who described Mike as her best friend and who has started a fundraising effort to help the family. "He just started opening his eyes.” Mike was sitting in the front passenger seat and took the brunt of the accident, she said. The driver and rear seat passenger — who fractured his legs — have been released from the hospital, said Seiders. Mike is 24 and living in Marlborough. He is an active member of Sudbury River Tennis Club and Wayside Tennis Club, a Senior Programmer Analyst at the Staples …
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The State Police Accident Reconstruction Team is working to figure out what led to the accident that led to one person being life flighted last Thursday.
The Massachusetts State Police Accident Reconstruction Team is hard at work to figure out what happened leading up to the crash of a car with three people in it last Thursday. "They’ll measure skid marks... and take photographs,” said Marlborough Det. Scott DeCiero of the Community Services Bureau. “We can get a pretty good feel as to what happened.” The State Police are called in on serious investigations, he said, and it can take some time to complete their work. The accident on Parmenter Street Thursday sent three people to the hospital. One person was life flighted to UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester following the single-car accident. The accident occured at 9:30 p.m., with the car leaving the road and striking a tree. Two …
Thursday, October 25, 2012
Two passengers were extricated and one person was life flighted.
Update: One person was life flighted to UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester following a single-car accident on Parmenter Street last night. “It appeared they had gone off the road, it is a windy road, they had gone off the road and struck a tree,” said Fire Chief Jim Fortin of the accident that occured between Broadmeadow Street and the Primate Center. Fire officials responded to the accident at 9:30 p.m. There were two passengers trapped in the vehicle, said Deputy Fire Chief Stanley Clement. “The male driver exited the vehicle," he said. The front and rear passengers had multiple traumas, said Deputy Chief Clement. It took the fire department 30 minutes to cut into the vehicle and free the passengers, said Chief Fortin. Receive updates …
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Scanner traffic reports that a serious multi-vehicle crash has occurred on I-495 South.
Around 12:30 p.m. Tuesday afternoon, police scanner traffic reported a major crash in Marlborough involving a tractor-trailer truck and two other vehicles in the vicinity of I-495 southbound north of exit 25 (I-290). The Massachusetts State Police, along with local rescue crews are on the scene. "The facts and circumstances of the crash, as well as the sequence of events, remain under investigation by Troop C of the Massachusetts State Police with the assistance of the State Police Commercial Vehicle Enforcement Section," said a release. The three vehicles involved in the crash are a Freightliner tractor hauling a Grumman trailer, a Chevrolet sport utility vehicle and a Ford pickup truck, said police. Serious injuries have been …
Dan
9:39 am on Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Wow! I hope everyone gets better . more ›