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November 1, 2007

Mass State Police may ID victims through vehicles

Massachusetts State Police said this morning they are interviewing witnesses and working with Rhode Island police to try to confirm the identities of two people killed in an explosive crash yesterday.

The Massachusetts medical examiner has not made a positive identification of the victims – one man and one woman – who were pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, on Route 95 north near exit 5.

Massachusetts Trooper Eric Benson says there’s no time frame. “It could take a couple days, really,” so authorities are working on other ways to identify the two.

When asked if they had determined who owned the vehicles – both of which were registered in Rhode Island – Benson said “that wont be released until the victims are identified.”

And until the two are identified, Benson said yesterday, the events leading up to the crash will remain a mystery.

Late yesterday morning, two cars that had been traveling at "extremely high speeds" collided, going off the road and up an embankment, and then exploding in flames.

Detective Timothy Cook Sr., one of the first officers on the scene, said some of the witness accounts he’s heard have lead him to believe the incident may have been between people who knew each other: “road rage,” rather than racing as was initially suggested.

-- projo.com staff writer Brandie M. Jefferson

Posted by Brandie Jefferson  at 11:53 AM | Permalink

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