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July 12, 2009 – Alexander C. Howe, 29, of Ipswich, Massachusetts, is in serious condition after a single car accident in that town early Thursday morning. Howe was ejected from his 1996 Volkswagen sedan, after leaving the road and crashing into a tree, according to police reports. The car then struck a parked truck and crashed into a garage. Local police continue to investigate the accident.

According to police, Howe was not wearing a seatbelt and was speeding at the time of the crash. He was unconscious when first responders arrived at the scene and was taken by ambulance to Beverly Hospital. Thereafter, he was transported to Beth Israel for further treatment and apparently remains in critical condition.

In the last two weeks there have been not less than four motor vehicle accidents in which occupants suffered life threatening injuries or death as the result of ejections, which inevitably are the result of a choice not to utilize seatbelts. The statistics are overwhelming about the increased risks associated with accidents, where it is reported that seatbelts, mandatory in Massachusetts and most other states, are not used.

July 6, 2009 – Jason Wayne Spurlin, 31, of Lakeworth, Florida, today was charged with vehicular homicide, operating to endanger and felony OUI, speeding and crossing lanes as the result of a car accident early Sunday morning. He was arraigned from his hospital bed and bail was set at $75,000.00. Spurlin has a history of driving offenses, including a prior OUI in Florida.

Spurlin was the operator of a car, which crashed in the early morning hours yesterday in Walpole, Massachusetts, killing 3 passengers in a single car accident. He survived with serious injuries. Nick Kelly and Anna Dubois, both 20, of Walpole, and Amanda Murray, 23, of Medfield, were killed in the crash.

Walpole Police said Spurlin was intoxicated and speeding when he couldn’t negotiate a turn at the corner of East Street and High Street at around 1 a.m. He was driving a 1998 Jeep Cherokee, which went off the road and slammed into a tree. He has now been charged with vehicular homicide and

July 7, 2009 – Gleidson Pereira, 23, of Plymouth, Massachusetts, was the operator of a motor vehicle, which crashed. Pereira has died as the result of the single car accident on I-95 North in Attleboro, Massachusetts early Sunday morning. Two passengers, Ivanildo De Sousa, 27, and Lavdeir De Silva, 29, also from Plymouth, both died as well. Another passenger, Samuel Troy-Mendes, 29, also of Plymouth, suffered serious pesonal injuries and was treated at Rhode Island Hospital.

Pereira apparently lost control of the car near Exit 3 at about 2:43 a.m. The car rolled and struck several tree stumps before coming to rest, according to the Massachusetts State Police. None of the occupants was wearing a seat belt , and all four were ejected from the vehicle. The Massachusetts state police and the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office are investigating the accident and to date, no one has been charged.

The victims were among eight deaths as the result of motor vehicle accidents this weekend in eastern Massachusetts. Three others died, also in a single car crash in the early morning in Walpole, Massachusetts leaving one survivor. Another man died in Quincy and an eighth in Sudbury last evening.

July 1, 2009 – Katherine Casey, 84, of Malden,Massachusetts, has died as the result of personal injuries sustained in a car accident in which her husband, Joseph Casey, 83, was the driver. It appears that he was responsible for the accident, which occurred in Woburn, Massachusetts yesterday afternoon. The second car was also driven by an older 78 year old woman. The woman was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with life-threatening injuries. She has not yet been identified.

Mr. Casey will be charged in the crash and his license has been revoked by the RMV, according to the Middlesex County District Attorney. Casey has a recent history of driving woes, including a surchargeable accident in 2004, which resulted in a license suspension. Casey then took driver rehabilitiation courses and obtained a medical clearance, which eventually resulted in the reinstatement of his license to operate. However, he had another accident in 2005, which did not result in a new suspension.

The crash yesterday occurred at the intersection of Old Cambridge Road and Russell Street. The elderly man was driving a Toyota Camry and was with his 84-year-old wife when he struck a Chrysler Sebring driven by an unidentified 78-year-old Woburn woman. The Malden couple was taken to the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, where Mrs. Casey later died from her injuries.

July 9, 2009 – Cassandra Flynn, a 21 year old Bourne woman, has a died as a result of personal injuries sustained in a one car accident in Bourne, Massachsuetts on June 29th. The 1984 Porsche 944 slammed into a tree on County Road, in Pocasset. Three other passengers, including the driver, Jonathan Muir, were injured and initially treated at local hospitals.

Flynn’s friend, Erica Pouler, had turned 21 at midnight and the group apparently went out to celebrate at a local restaurant. The fourth passenger was Sonya Dangelo, of Bourne. The driver, Jonathan Muir, 21 years old and residing in Falmouth appears to have lost control of the vehicle on a curve and crashed into a tree.

Muir has been charged with motor vehicle homicide, two counts of causing serious bodily injury while under the influence of alcohol, driving so as to endanger, failure to stay within marked lanes, and speeding. 

June 26, 2009: Joanna Soucy, a 33 year old from Tyngsborough, Massachusetts, died as the result of serious personal injuries when her minivan rolled over in the median on Route I-495 northbound in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The accident occurred Thursday night at around 10:30 p.m.

Police say that Soucy was not wearing a seat belt and was thrown from the automobile. Soucy was pronounced dead at the scene. The accident remains under investigation.

Source: Boston Herald