Car Crash

On Monday evening, a car driven by a 17-year-old boy on Mile Hill Road in Belmont, Mass., swerved around a corner, ran into an embankment and flipped over onto its roof.
The driver, Jamie Peterson of Elm Street in Belmont, managed to crawl out the car overturned car on his own accord. There were two passengers in the car at the time of the accident.
According to police, 17-year-old Tom Carroll Jr. was driving behind the white mustang in his pick-up truck when the car suddenly sped up around the curve. The next time he saw the car it was on its roof.
“I thought the worst,” Carroll said. “They were flying. It’s hard to see kids your age in something like this. You realize when you see it what could happen, especially on this road.”
Carroll also told police that when he looked underneath the car he saw three empty Budweiser beer cans.
Josie M. Crandall lives across from the fairgrounds at 27 Mile Hill Rd. She told police that she looked out a window from her home at 9 p.m. and saw the white mustang headed north on the road. She informed police as soon as the accident happened.
“I’ve never seen a car going so fast on this road,” Crandall said. “It’s a dirt road, and it’s really easy to lose control.” Mile Hill Road does not have any streetlights as well.
Rescuers arrived at the scene and used the Jaws of Life to pull the two passengers, both female, from the crushed vehicle. The victims were taken to Memorial Hospital in Belmont, where one was listed in stable condition. The other was airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in Boston.
There was a similar accident on this road on Dec. 24, 1998, involving speed and intoxication as well. The crash claimed the lives of two people in the car.