Driver killed as burning SUV crashes through fence, falls 40 feet onto road in Boston
BOSTON - A driver was killed in a horrifying crash in Boston Wednesday morning as their burning SUV smashed through a chain link fence and fell 40 feet onto a road below.
Car on fire before crash
It happened around 10 a.m. in Widett Circle near Interstate 93. The car was on fire when it went through a fence on the Massachusetts Avenue connector and landed on the exit 16 off ramp from the expressway, according to Boston Fire Commissioner Paul Burke.
"We're fortunate that there was no car underneath when it came down from the overpass, that it didn't hit another vehicle," Burke said, adding that "there's nothing left" of the SUV.
"The entire thing was engulfed in flames, so you could barely tell it was a car," said Michael Tobin, who came upon the SUV when it was on fire. "It's bad because, you know, someone was in that car."
Driver not identified
The chief said they have not been able to determine if the driver was a man or a woman. No one else was in the SUV. There's no word yet on what caused the fire or the crash.
"Basically, we just heard a crash, I thought it was just a crash maybe on the bridge or something. And then we come over here for coffee time and we just see a bunch of smoke," construction worker Moises Valencia told WBZ-TV.
"We were just looking at smoke. We thought the railroad tires were on fire or a building was on fire, something like that. It wasn't until the smoke cleared we saw something fell off the bridge."
No other information is available at this point in the investigation.
