- This fatal crash happened in Belchertown Massachusetts and this is the story.
The wild and fatal crash involved a teenager who fled the scene Sunday night, according to Belchertown authorities.
The Massachusetts State Police attempted to stop the car with the teenager
driving at 8:45 P.M. on Route 202, but the vehicle sped away, police stated. The vehicle wasn’t staying within the marked driving lanes and was being operated erratically, said David Procopio, State Police spokesman.
The driver of said vehicle was a 19-year-old New Hampshire man. He rand a red light at the intersection with Route 9 and crashed into a mulch bed causing the car to be airborne.
From there, the vehicle hit a rock wall, large tree and light post before slamming into the front end of a Jeep Wrangler parked in the driveway of a house at 79 North Main Street.
The fatal crash caused the cars engine block to be “launched out of the engine compartment,” and it crashed through a nearby home, landing inside of the house on the second floor.
Donna Sims, homeowner, said Monday afternoon “The engine’s still upstairs. They’ve got to get it out.”
The front of the vehicle finally ended when striking the exterior of the house on the first floor, which left gaping holes on two levels of the building. Sims mother was lucky enough to have just left the first-floor room just minutes before the collision.
“She was just looking at the hole in the wall, staring in disbelief,” Sims said, referring to her mother.
The 19-year-old driver of the car was ejected and pronounced dead at the
scene, according to police. A continued investigation is taking place regarding if the driver was impaired during the crash but they did say that “multiple empty beer cans inside and outside the crashed vehicle, as well as a fake Vermont driver’s license,” with the man’s photo on it. D
There was a Buick Envision parked next to the Jeep, which also had damage following the fatal crash. The driver was from Henniker, New Jersey, but his name has not been released.
Sims’ home is condemned and she and her family are going to “just play it day by day.”
“I’m hopeful, maybe, we can go in and get a little bit of our stuff. Salvage a little bit of our stuff,” she said. “Bricks have been falling. Now, [the structural damage is] from I guess the roof all the way to the basement.”
The Red Cross of Massachusetts has provided a place to stay for the next few days, for Sims and her family.