One person was killed in a head-on crash late Sunday in Melrose, Massachusetts, state police said.
The crash, which occurred around 11:30 p.m. on the Lynn Fells Parkway at the intersection with Elm Street, involved a 2015 Mercedes CLS and a 2013 Volkswagen Jetta. The impact was so violent, the Mercedes ended up on its side up against the two cars parked a driveway.
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The driver of the Mercedes, a 41-year-old man from Randolph, was pronounced dead at the scene, state police said. His name has not been released.
What we know from police on scene was it appears the Mercedes and the Volkswagen hit head on, apparently at a high rate of speed, but on the passenger sides of each vehicle. The Mercedes appears to have gone at least partially airborne, crashing into a tree and breaking a large branch off the tree, before ending up against the vehicles parked in a driveway.
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A preliminary investigation has determined the Mercedes, traveling westbound, crossed over into the eastbound side of the road, striking the Volkswagen.
Witnesses tell us there was a 46-year-old man and a 61-year-old woman, both from Saugus, in the Volkswagen who were injured but alert and talking after the crash. The injuries they suffered were minor, according to state police, but they were still transported to Melrose-Wakefield Hospital.
A hydraulic lift had to be used to stabilize the SUV when first responders arrived.
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Jennifer O'Donnell and her two young girls, who were home at the time of the crash, were uninjured.
“I walked out, and it was just complete mayhem out here,” O’Donnell said. "with a car just on top of our cars, and it was just – it was horrific.”
Back in May, a woman crashed her car into a tree in front of the same home and also died.
“Heard screeching and then a loud boom, boom, which is exactly what happened two months ago, and then when I looked out there was a car here, my neighbor and I were first responders to the prior accident where there was a fatality and there was another – this person, this was a fatality as well so something needs to be done,” neighbor Kerrie Bailey said.
The crash and circumstances surrounding it remain under investigation.
The crash cause the road to be closed for nearly four hours, state police said.
Neighbors say something needs to be done to prevent another tragedy from happening here.
“They have to do something about this particular strip of road,” Bailey said.
