A 23-year-old Bellingham man was killed in a automobile crash early yesterday morning on slender, winding Excessive Road.
Sean Whalen, of 87 Newland Ave., who died within the crash, was a passenger in a automobile pushed by 21-year-old Matthew Markham, of 79 Elvira St., Bellingham. Lt. Kevin W. Ranieri mentioned police plan to cost Markham with motorized vehicle murder by negligent operation and rushing.
Whalen was sitting within the entrance passenger seat, which took the brunt of the injury, and was sporting his seat belt, Ranieri mentioned.
Emergency responders handled him, and he was pronounced lifeless shortly thereafter at Milford Regional Medical Heart, Ranieri mentioned.
Markham, the motive force, known as police to report the accident at 1:54 a.m., Ranieri mentioned.
Markham was driving an Oldsmobile Cutlass westbound on Excessive Road (away from Maple Road), which Ranieri described as “an actual tight, powerful street.”
Ranieri mentioned Markham was dealing with the backseat passenger and carrying on a dialog as he crossed the bridge, Ranieri mentioned.
As Markham circled to face ahead, he hit two bushes on the correct facet of the street, Ranieri mentioned.
“He ended up in the midst of the street, and so the injury was heavy to the entrance passenger facet of the automobile,” Ranieri mentioned.
It seems Whalen was damage in his higher physique and died from inside accidents, Ranieri mentioned.
Markham and the backseat passenger, Erik Joudrey, 24, of 20 Overlook Drive, have been taken to Milford Regional Medical Heart to be handled for non-serious accidents, he mentioned.
Markham and Joudrey advised police that they had been consuming “some alcohol” earlier within the night, however they didn’t seem intoxicated, Ranieri mentioned.
A blood-alcohol check at Milford Regional will decide whether or not alcohol was an element within the accident, Ranieri mentioned.
“It is powerful – they’re all Bellingham children. A few of us, together with my daughter, knew them, went to highschool with them,” Ranieri mentioned.
“Being younger children, they’re simply starting, you hate to see that.”
About 30 ft previous the Excessive Road bridge, items of a white Oldsmobile and two new Miller Lite beer cans lay strewn throughout the wooded swamp, and two bushes bore a mark from the crash.
A path of glass lined the sting of street and the swamp it splits.
Markham, who was not arrested, shall be summoned to court docket, Ranieri mentioned.
Joyce Kelly may be reached at 508-634-7582 or jkelly@cnc.com. This story and others about Bellingham may be discovered at www.milforddailynews.com.
