Police identify victims of fatal Charles River crash
Massachusetts State Police identified Sunday the man and woman who died Saturday evening after they were pulled from a pickup truck that crashed through a guardrail into the Charles River.
Brian Arcand, 36, of North Smithfield, Rhode Island, and Rebecca Smith, 36, of Providence, were extricated from the Toyota Tacoma at about 6:40 p.m. Saturday. They were taken to Mass. General Hospital with “life-threatening injuries’’ and subsequently pronounced dead at the hospital, police said.
Based on a preliminary investigation, police believe their pickup was traveling on Nashua Street in Boston when it ran a red light at Leverett Circle and side-swiped an Acura MDX sport-utility vehicle. The pickup then traveled off Charles River Dam Road into the water, near the Museum of Science, police said.
The pickup was fully submerged when emergency personnel arrived on scene.
The driver of the Acura, a 35-year-old woman from Milton, and her passenger, a 36-year-old woman from New York, were not injured, according to police.
The crash remains under investigation, police said.
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