Car accidents

High School Student Dies in Car Crash

Jake Baird died Friday morning from injuries sustained in a single-car accident. Two other students who were passengers were injured in the crash.

Car Lands in Harbor After Driver Error

A car landed in the shallows of the Edgartown harbor Monday afternoon after the driver mistakenly backed over the edge of a cement pier near the Reading Room. No one was injured in the incident.

Car Pulled from Sunset Lake After Motor Vehicle Mishap

An Oak Bluffs man was uninjured after he drove his Audi into Sunset Lake Friday night, Oak Bluffs police said.

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Two-Car Crash Mars Holiday

A 21-year-old New Hampshire woman remained in a Boston hospital with life-threatening injuries yesterday following a two-car crash on Barnes Road that marred Fourth of July festivities on the Vineyard Wednesday afternoon.

The crash left five people injured, three of them seriously, state police said.

The three people were later flown by medical helicopter to Boston hospitals, including Heather LaFlamme, 21, of Berlin, N.H., who was reported in critical condition at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston Thursday afternoon.

Senator Kennedy is Charged with Leaving Accident

Chief Dominick J. Arena of the Edgartown police yesterday filed application for a complaint against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy for leaving the scene of an accident on Chappaquiddick, in which Miss Mary Jo Kopechne of Washington, D. C., was drowned. Senator Kennedy has admitted that he was the driver of the automobile that ran off the Dike Bridge and sank in Poucha Pond, with Miss Kopechne trapped inside.

Mulliken Manslaughter Case

The Mulliken automobile manslaughter case, which was tried before Judge Eldridge, of the district court of Dukes county, last summer, and which aroused great interest among Vineyard people and automobilists, will come up in the superior court at Edgartown the last of the month.

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