Page 2 THE SAUGUS ADVOCATE – Friday, September 6, 2019 Tragic Double Fatality at Route 1 Crash Two die from injuries in head-on crash involving wrong-way driver on Route 1 T $3.39 $2.40 GALLON GALLON We accept: MasterCard * Visa * & Discover Price Subject to Change without notice 100 Gal. Min. 24 Hr. Service 781-286-2602 wo people were killed early last Saturday (Aug. 31) in a head-on collision that police said was caused by a wrongway driver. The accident was the second wrong-way crash on Route 1 North in recent weeks. State Police received multiple calls at around 3:30 a.m. about a Chevrolet Impala driver traveling in the area of the Sonic Drive-In in Peabody headed south on the northbound side of Route 1. About five minutes later, troopers from the State Police’s Danvers barracks responded due to a head-on crash which resulted in two fatalities – the driver Saugus Youth Soccer Mums Fall Fundraiser On Saturday, September 7th Saugus Youth Soccer will be selling beautiful, hardy Mums at Anna Parker Field. There will be multi colors to choose from: red, lavender, yellow, orange and white. Priced at $7.00 each We have ordered over 300 hardy Mums, enough for each player to purchase 2 Mums during this even. Thank you! If you have any questions, please contact me, Mary Migliore: mry8765@aol.com DEATH SCENE: Two people died in this head-on, wrongway crash on Route 1 North in Saugus last Saturday. Police say a Chevrolet Impala driven by a Lynn man caused the accident by driving southbound and into the path of a 2018 Dodge Journey SUV, killing himself and a passenger in the SUV. (Courtesy photos by Lt. Damian Drella of The Saugus Fire Department to The Saugus Advocate) of the wrong-way car and a female passenger in the vehicle he struck – according to police. A preliminary investigation determined the Impala first clipped the rear end of a box truck before crashing headon into a 2018 Dodge Journey SUV occupied by two adults on Route 1’s northbound side in the area of the Army Barracks store in Saugus. Police identified the driver of the wrongway vehicle as Luis Gallego, 29, of Lynn. Troopers rushed to the scene and found Gallego, the sole occupant of the wrong-way vehicle, dead inside the Impala, which caught fire. They found the occupants of the Journey, a man and woman, with serious injuries. The driver of the Journey, a 51-year-old Peabody man, was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital with serious injuries. His passenger was transported to MelroseWakefield Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police later identified the victim as Evelyn Pinto, 48, of Peabody. The driver of the box truck was not injured. The facts and circumstances of the crash, including the reason for the wrong-way operation, remain under investigation by Troop A of the Massachusetts State Police with the assistance of the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and the State Police Crime Scene Services Section. All three lanes northbound were shut down for more than two hours as a result of the crash. They reopened at around 6 a.m. Earlier last month there was a crash in Lynnfield near the Peabody line caused by a Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck that was going south in the northbound lane. Thomas Neirinckx, 21, of Saugus, was arrested on numerous charges, including drunk driving and driving under the influence of drugs after his pickup truck crashed into a car and allegedly seriously injured an elderly couple, according to police. Lawrence A. Simeone Jr. Attorney-at-Law ~ Since 1989 ~ * Corporate Litigation * Criminal/Civil * MCAD * Zoning/Land Court * Wetlands Litigation * Workmen’s Compensation * Landlord/Tenant Litigation * Real Estate Law * Construction Litigation * Tax Lein * Personal Injury * Bankruptcy * Wrongful Death * Zoning/Permitting Litigation 300 Broadway, Suite 1, Revere * 781-286-1560 Lsimeonejr@simeonelaw.net
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