Emergency crews swarmed a stretch of Route 138 in Raynham on Saturday evening after a motor vehicle crash reportedly left a vehicle entangled with live electrical wires. The condition of the people inside the vehicle was not immediately known as officials worked the scene.
According to cedarnews.net, officials were responding to the crash on Route 138, and the incident reportedly involved a vehicle colliding with live wires. An electric company had reportedly been summoned to the scene, though it was not clear from the report which utility was called or whether power had been cut to the area. The outlet also reported that there was no word yet on the condition of the occupants inside the vehicle.
The crash was also covered by NBC 10 News (WJAR), whose report similarly described passengers trapped inside the vehicle after the crash, with the condition of those passengers listed as unknown. NBC 10 had reached out to officials for more information as the story continued to develop, per the same cedarnews.net account.
A Dangerous Stretch of Road
Saturday's crash adds to a troubling run of serious collisions along Route 138 in the Raynham and Easton area this year. In September, a Brockton man, Danidelson Monteiro, 34, was killed when a work van and a tractor-trailer collided on Route 138 in Easton and the van burst into flames, according to enterprisenews.com. That crash happened around 6:45 p.m. near 676 Turnpike Street; the tractor-trailer driver, the vehicle's sole occupant, was taken to a hospital with minor injuries, while the van's lone occupant was pronounced dead at the scene.
That September tragedy came on the heels of two fatal motorcycle crashes on Route 138 just weeks apart in August, the same enterprisenews.com report noted. Jason Marshall, 31, of Taunton, died after sustaining serious injuries in an Aug. 11 crash involving a motorcycle and a pickup truck in Raynham. Less than two weeks later, Daniel Pitts, 37, of South Easton, died from injuries suffered in an Aug. 23 crash at the intersection of Broadway, also known as Route 138, and King Phillip Street.
Police Response to the August Crash
Raynham Police and fire crews were dispatched to the intersection of Route 138 and Elm Street after 911 calls came in around 7:50 p.m. on Aug. 11, according to the Raynham Police Department. That investigation was handled jointly by the Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney's Office and Raynham Police, with the department describing the case as active and ongoing.
No official statement from police, fire, or utility crews about Saturday's crash had been released as of this writing, and key details remained unconfirmed, including the exact location along Route 138, the number of people involved, and whether anyone was injured. Hoodline will update this story as more information becomes available.
