Speeding Leads to Accident on Mile Hill Rd

Belmont, MA – It was a typical Monday evening on Mile Hill Rd until about 9 o’clock. Three young females were on the verge of meeting a tragic destiny until help arrived.

Mile Hill Rd has no streetlights. This should have been an automatic red flag as Jamie Peterson and two other passengers drove down the dirt road.

Fortunately, Josie M. Crandall, a resident of Mile Hill Rd. , called for help as soon as she witnessed the accident as she looked out of her window.

Crandall said, “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.” Crandall was not the only one to watch the disaster; Tom Carroll, a seventeen year old, happened to be driving down the road simultaneously.

Carroll was the first on the scene. He reported to police that he had been driving behind the white Mustang. He noticed that the car began to pick up speed rapidly as they attempted to make their way around a windy curve. Within seconds, the Mustang was upside down.

Leiutenant Judith Barkus , of the Belmont Police Department, revealed that Jamie Peterson was the driver, but the two other females are unknown. Carroll reported to the police that he found three empty Budweiser beer cans under the car.

Carroll was horrified by what he had just seen. “I thought the worst. They were flying.”

Somehow, Peterson managed to crawl out of the car with no assistance while the jaws of life had to rescue the other two girls.

After 45 minutes of finally releasing them from the vehicle, they were taken to the Memorial Hospital in Belmont. One was left in stable condition while the other victim was airlifted to Mass. General Hospital in Boston.

“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,” said Carroll.

About eleven years ago on December 24, 1998, two people were killed in an accident on the same spot on Mile Hill Rd. All it takes is one bad “bump in the road” to change someone’s life and others.