METHUEN, Mass. — A woman from Waterbury was killed Sunday after a car she was riding in crashed into a telephone pole in Massachusetts.
On Sunday morning at 3:08 a.m. police responded to a car crash on Milk street in Methuen, Mass. The car was driving northbound when suddenly it slammed into a telephone pole. The vehicle sustained “catastrophic damage,” police said.
Jennifer Montanez, 23, of Waterbury, Connecticut was transported to the Holy Family Hospital where she was pronounced dead. She was one of the passengers inside the car.
Another passenger, Jessenia Ramos, 28, of Peabody, was airlifted to Massachusetts General Hospital with critical life-threatening injuries.
Montanez’s sister, Jessenia Montanez, 29, of Methuen, and the driver, Jacleyn Leclerc of Peabody, Mass., both suffered non-life threatening injuries.
Methuen police continue to investigate the crash and said alcohol is believed to be a factor. No charges have been filed yet.
