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Six miles away on Derby’s Fifth Street, mourners could not believe Samuel was gone. He also said police seized “evidence” from around the vehicle, but did not disclose what it was. Satkowski said there have been accidents on Rimmon Street before, but not this serious. Rimmon Street, between Clifton Street and Pershing Avenue, was closed for hours Wednesday morning as utility workers from Eversource, Frontier and other companies repair the damage. "It's not because they are young," that the crash happened, Aubrey said. "I couldn't sleep last night.”Īubrey and others said that traffic often travels too fast on the steep grade road. "I've got a grandson of 18," she said, expressing sympathy for the fatality. She said rescuers cautioned them to remain still. "I saw one gentlemen on a stretcher, " she said, while others were trying to get out of the totaled car. Support services will be available at the high school for any students Thursday and next week, the superintendent said.Īurora Aubrey, 65, of Bridgeport, who works as an overnight caretaker of an elderly woman across the street from the scene of the accident, heard painful screams. He did have a pending criminal case in Bridgeport’s Golden Hill Street courthouse that has been continued until Jan. He does not appear in any of the next two years of yearbooks. The following year carries a notation that he is missing from photographs of the freshman class of 2017. The 2013 Derby High School yearbook carries a picture of him with a large afro as a freshman in the class of 2016. Samuel, friends say, attended Irving School, Derby Middle School and the high school. “We are reaching out to our extended family members to support them in every way we can.” “Our Derby family is saddened by the news of the accident in Seymour involving a Derby resident and former student,” Superintendent of Schools Matthew Conway, Jr said. The victims non-life threatening injuries ranged from lung and back injuries to abrasions. “It was a difficult extrication,” said Kyle Kelly, chief of the Seymour Ambulance Association, who said the victims were quickly stabilized and transported to trauma centers at Bridgeport, Waterbury and Yale New-Haven hospitals.Īmbulance crews from his association as well as the Ansonia Rescue Medical Service and the Oxford Ambulance Association participated. Satkowski said police have not determined the relationship between the people inside the car or what they were doing before the crash.
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Satkowski said criminal charges will be filed against the unidentified male driver after a “lengthy, complete and through investigation.” The car was registered to a Derby address.Īpart from Samuel, the names of the other victims in the crash - with ages ranging from 14 to 22 years -old - have not been released. Samuel, who just turned 20 Monday, was seated in the back with four others.
Some were not wearing seatbelts, Satkowski said. The car contained three males and three females, all living in Derby or Bridgeport. “Speed was definitely a factor in this incident,” said Deputy Police Chief Paul Satkowski said. After the pole fell its utility lines draped over the car, hampering rescue efforts. Police believe the car was traveling at a high rate of speed when it struck the pole, shearing it in three places and knocking out power to 400 nearby residents.
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