FALL RIVER, MA : Elderly driver killed, dozens displaced after crash sparks fire at Fall River apartment complex on Tuesday, 1st January 2019
Fall River, Massachusetts
A woman was killed, her passenger was left critically injured, multiple firefighters were hospitalized and dozens of people were displaced after a car slammed into a Fall River apartment complex and sparked a blaze on Tuesday morning, officials said.
Emergency crews responding to a reported car crash at the Four Winds apartment complex on North Main Street around 9:40 a.m. found a vehicle that had rammed into a laundry room area and ruptured a gas line, according to a spokesman for the Bristol District Attorney’s Office.
The driver, 72-year-old Judith Mauretti, of Fall River, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Mauretti’s passenger, a 75-year-old Fall River woman, was rushed to Rhode Island Hospital, where she remains in critical condition. Her name has not been released.
Police believe Mauretti was speeding before she plowed into the building.
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