17-year-old dead following motorcycle crash in Waltham

A 17-year-old Waltham teen has died after he sustained serious injuries in a motorcycle crash.The Middlesex District Attorney’s office said Mac Surette was pronounced dead at a Boston-area hospital on Sunday, four days after the crash in Waltham.Police responded to the report of the crash involving a motorcycle and a Honda Accord on Main Street in Waltham around 5:25 p.m. on June 19. The DA’s office said the 52-year-old driver of the vehicle remained on the scene, and the investigation into the crash is ongoing.According to Patch, Surette obtained his motorcycle license four days before the crash.The 17-year-old, whose passions included fishing, motorsports, and animals, was going to enter his senior year at Waltham High School, where he played goalie for the junior varsity hockey team, according to his obituary

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“Mac lived life to the fullest; he spent as much time with family and friends as he could, traveling on vacations to Bermuda, California and all over,” his loved ones wrote.

Rising Waltham High School senior Max Surette died Sunday night from injuries he suffered when his motorcycle collided with a car making a U-turn in Waltham last week. Today, the 17-year-old’s family learned his heart saved the life of a man in his 20s. #Boston25 pic.twitter.com/dLXKwUsExZ

— Mike Saccone (@mikesacconetv) June 27, 2019

Surette’s family wrote in his obituary that the teen was an organ donor.

“He touched many lives in such a short period of time,” they wrote. “Mac made the decision on his own years ago to be an organ donor. With that decision and the tragic events that have unfolded, he will live on not only in the hearts and minds of those that he loved and survived him but in the donation of vital organs to a 20-year-old for a heart, a 60-year-old man for a liver, a 30-year-old woman and 40-year-old man for a kidney. Mac is a hero in the eyes of many.”