WEST BROOKFIELD, MA : A single-car crash on Douglas Road on Tuesday, November, 7th 2017
West Brookfield, Massachusetts
Three students from Quaboag Regional Middle-High School were killed in a single-car crash on Douglas Road Tuesday afternoon.
Two girls and a boy were killed when their car went off the road, hit a tree and overturned, according to authorities.
The victims were pronounced dead soon after the 3:30 p.m. crash, about a quarter-mile from Route 9. They were the lone occupants of the southbound vehicle.
The identities of the three students have not been made public. Quaboag is in Warren, not far from the crash scene.
Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. and Police Chief C. Thomas O’Donnell confirmed the deaths in a news release.
Grief counselors will be at Quaboag on Wednesday.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. State and local police were at the crash scene for hours. Douglas Road was reopened around 8:45 p.m.
The Warren Police Department posted about the accident on its Facebook page.
Warren police wrote: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims and the entire population at the school. We are asking that everyone please respect the privacy of the families of the victims and avoid the area of the accident so that police can try to determine the cause of the crash.”
Douglas Road is a winding stretch and a shortcut from Route 9 to Quaboag. It is narrow, swampy on one side with a steep hill on the other. There is no center line and curves come up quickly.
The pavement is scarred with skid marks.
Tuesday night, as blue lights from a line of cruisers lit the area, a woman walked toward the crash scene, an identification from Quaboag Regional Middle-High School around her neck. She’d been on her way home. When she was told that three students had been killed, she was shaken and dabbed back tears.
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3 Quaboag students dead in West Brookfield crash