Monday evening, three local teenagers were involved in a car accident on Mile Hill Rd.
The three teenagers were speeding down the unlit dirt road when they turned a corner, swerved of the road, hit an embankment, and flipped the car over onto its roof.
“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,” said Josie M. Crandall, a resident on Mile Hill Rd who witnessed the accident.
17-year-old Tom Carrol Jr. was driving behind the mustang when the car suddenly sped ahead around a curve. The next time he saw it, it was on its roof. He was the first on the scene.
“I thought the worse,” Carroll said. “They were flying” While talking to the police, Carroll revealed that he saw at least three empty Budweiser beer cans on the ground, along with a blue Gor-Tex rain parka.
According to Lt. Judith Barkus of the Belmont Police Dept, driver of the car has been identified as 17-year-old Jamie Peterson, although the names of the other two female passengers are still unknown. Peterson managed to crawl out of the car on his own. Rescuers on the scene had to resort to using the Jaws of Life in order to free the passengers of the car. The victims were taken to Memorial Hospital in Belmont, where one is in stable condition. The other was airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in Boston.
“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 commented.
Mile Hill Rd. has a history of dangerous car accidents. On Christmas Eve in 1998, there were two people involved in a fatal crash in the same spot.
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