A Rhode Island man has died after he crashed right into a median on Interstate 495 in Plainville early Tuesday, authorities say.
Sage A. Woodward, 23, of Pawtucket, was driving a 2008 BMW 3 Series when he struck a guardrail on the proper aspect of the highway, inflicting the automobile to veer left throughout all three lanes and into the median, in keeping with a preliminary investigation.
The influence with the median brought on the automobile to go up in flames and into an embankment. Massachusetts State Police responded round 3:45 a.m. to a number of calls of a automobile fireplace and a brush fireplace on I-495 south at mile marker 35.2 in Plainville.
Massachusetts State Police referred to as the rescue mission a “valiant effort,” with a pair of troopers leaping into the embankment, discovering Woodward within the passenger aspect of the BMW, face down in water. Another trooper started suppressing the flames with a hearth extinguisher.
Troopers Bianca Vargas and Matthew Higgins, each out of the State Police-Foxboro Barracks, acquired help from two Good Samaritans who stopped on the scene and helped pull Woodward to a better a part of the embankment, the place responders started performing CPR on the sufferer “for several minutes.”
Plainville EMS arrived on scene and completed the CPR earlier than taking Woodward to Sturdy Memorial Hospital in Taunton, the place he was pronounced lethal shortly after.
One of the troopers additionally went to the Taunton hospital for remedy of a laceration he suffered whereas on the scene.
The rescue response and investigation closed the freeway’s left and heart lanes for greater than three hours earlier than the scene cleared at 7 a.m.
The crash stays below investigation.
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