A three car pile up on State Road Tuesday afternoon sent one passenger to the hospital and closed a stretch of road for more than a hour, according to Tisbury police.
Car accidents
July 19, 2021
Louisa Hufstader
A nine-year-old Aquinnah boy is recovering at Boston Children’s Hospital after he was struck by a neighbor’s pickup truck last week. An online fundraising appeal for the family was launched.
August 2, 2021
Noah Asimow
State police are investigating a broadside, two-vehicle collision that occurred on the Edgartown-West Tisbury Road involving an Edgartown paramedic vehicle that was responding to an emergency service call Sunday.
2018
January 18, 2018
Many were in mourning this week around the Vineyard after regional high school senior Jake Baird was killed last Friday in an early morning car accident in Chilmark.
January 12, 2018
Jake Baird died Friday morning from injuries sustained in a single-car accident. Two other students who were passengers were injured in the crash.
2017
July 10, 2017
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.
2013
November 2, 2013
An Oak Bluffs man was uninjured after he drove his Audi into Sunset Lake Friday night, Oak Bluffs police said.
2012
July 5, 2012
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.
1969
July 22, 1969
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.
