On Monday evening there was a potentially fatal car accident on Mile Hill Road. The driver struggled free, while two teenage passengers were hospitalized after being rescued from the upside down car.
Jamie Peterson, seventeen years old, of Elm St. in Belmont, was driving on Mile Hill Road at 9 PM when speeding around a corner became too much for him to handle. Hitting an embankment caused his car, a white Mustang, to flip over onto its roof. This same spot is also the place where two people were killed in an accident on December 24, 1998.
“I’ve never seen a car going so fast on this road. It’s a dirt road, and it’s really easy to lose control,” says Josie M. Crandall, who lives at 27 Mile Hill Road, and was a witness to the accident.
Tom Carroll, Jr., seventeen, was also driving on the road the same time as Peterson. He had been driving behind the Mustang in his pick-up truck when the Mustang sped ahead out of view. After driving around the corner Carroll saw the flipped car.
“I thought the worst. They were flying. It’s hard to see kids your age in something like this. You realize when you see it what could happen, especially on this road,” says Carroll. He also states he saw at least three empty Budweiser beer cans on the ground.
Peterson struggled out of the car on his own while his two passengers, young females, had to endure 45 minutes before the rescuers were able to free them. Both passengers were taken to Memorial Hospital in Belmont; however, one was airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in Boston. The other remains in stable condition.