State Police responded to five fatal crashes on Wednesday
AMESBURY – Massachusetts State Police responded to five separate fatal motor vehicle crashes on Wednesday.
State police said they are leading investigations into fatal motorcycle crashes in Amesbury and Newburyport along with a car crash in Stoughton. Troopers also helped local police with fatal crashes in Falmouth and Leominster.
Kruise Herring Delgado of Lowell was identified as the motorcyclist killed in the Amesbury crash.
Delgado was attempting to speed through a tight gap between a tractor-trailer and Tesla on Interstate 495 North. Police said he may have struck the rear of the tractor-trailer, then the side of the Tesla.
The motorcyclist killed on I-95 North in Newburyport Wednesday night was identified as 21-year-old Daniel E. Mena, of Lynn. Witnesses told State Police that two other vehicles on the highway nearly collided, causing one of them to swerve into the motorcycle.
At least three other vehicles ended up hitting Mena or the motorcycle on the road. Investigators are still working to identify the first two drivers that nearly collided, triggering the motorcycle crash.
In Stoughton, police said they responded to a single-car crash on Route 24 North at 8:30 p.m. The car hit a guardrail and rolled over "for reasons still under investigation," police said. Suzete Mendes, a 37-year-old Hyannis woman, was pronounced dead at a local hospital.