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Pembroke community comes together for family of teen girl killed in Duxbury crash
Community members remember her as a “sweetheart of a girl.”
The Pembroke community is coming together to help the family of the teenage girl who died following a single-car crash earlier this week in Duxbury.
In a Facebook post, the Hobomock Parent Teacher Organization identified the teenager as Maddie Straub, a Silver Lake High School senior from Pembroke.
“Pembroke has lost an amazing and beautiful young girl,” the organization wrote in the post.
The organization set up several ways to help her family cover upcoming expenses, including donating to Santa’s Helpers and a meal train. Blackbird Baking Co. is also donating 100% of its proceeds for sales on Saturday, Sept. 21, at the Pembroke Farmers Market.
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Pembroke Youth Baseball & Softball will host a candlelight vigil to honor Straub on Wednesday, Sept. 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Mattakeesett Fields by the Snack Shack.
George Howe, a member of the Pembroke Youth Baseball & Softball Board, told Boston 25 News that he got to know Straub well because she worked essentially as his manager and at the Snack Shack next to the baseball fields.
“She was just one of those girls you meet, kids that you meet, that you can tell was just going places,” Howe told the news station.
Howe is helping to organize Wednesday’s vigil, saying that Straub was “a sweetheart of a girl.”
What happened:
Around 12:20 a.m. on Saturday, Duxbury police and fire responded to a report of a single-car crash into a tree on Harrison Street. Police found the 17-year-old Straub trapped in the vehicle. She was the only person in the car.
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Straub was unresponsive, and the Jaws of Life were used to extricate her from the car.
Fire responders provided life-saving measures, and she was transported by MedFlight to Massachusetts General Hospital.
The Chief Medical Examiner notified Duxbury police on Monday evening that Straub had died from her injuries.
Duxbury police and State Police, including the Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section, are investigating the circumstances of the crash.
The police previously said they believed speed was a factor in the crash.
“Our deepest condolences go out to the friends and family of the victim,” Duxubry Police Chief Michael Carbone said in a statement.
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