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A 21-year-old man is dead and a 19-year-old was seriously hurt after a crash in South Hadley, Massachusetts on Thursday.
Police said it happened around 7 a.m. when the driver, the 19-year-old, apparently crossed the center line on River Lodge Road and crashed into a tree. The passenger, the 21-year-old, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver was taken to Bay State Medical Center with serious injuries.
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The man who died was identified Friday as Kenny Rivera-Lopez, a 21-year-old from Martinsville, Virginia. The Northwestern District Attorney's Office said the driver is a 19-year-old from Chicopee, who pulled himself from the wreck and remained hospitalized Friday.
The cause of the crash was not immediately clear and it remains under investigation by South Hadley Police as well as State Police troopers from the Crime Scene Services Section (CSSS), the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section (CARS) and the Northwestern District Attorney's Office.
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