Harwich crash sends 5 teens to hospital, 2 with serious critical injuries, police named the victims

HARWICH, MASS. (WHDH) – A fiery crash in Harwich sent five teenagers to the hospital late Monday night.

The crash occurred on Queen Anne’s Road just before 11 p.m.

According to the Harwich Fire Department, two individuals were transported from the scene via medflight with serious injuries and three were transported via ambulance with non-life-threatening injuries.

All five were in the single car involved in the accident. Three are 18 years old and two are 17 years old.

The two medflighted from the scene are both female and were riding in the back of the car. A first responder reportedly had to place a tourniquet on one of their legs. The three other victims are all male.

“When my dad first said that, I was like, ‘Is he dead? Is he alive?’ All I heard was, ‘Your brother got into a car accident,’” said a sister of one of the boys.

Police said officers saw the car going 80 miles per hour and accelerating just before the crash.

“They turned around and the car crashed about 30 feet off into the woods. The car was off, it struck the gate to the power lines. There was a small fire starting in the engine,” said Harwich Police Lt. Aram Goshgarian.

Officers put the small fire out before removing the girls from the back seat.

One of the girls’ best friends visited the crash scene Tuesday.

“She has a few broken ribs I heard, a broken wrist, a broken arm, something happened with her eye, broken clavicle,” she said of one of the injured girls. “I was heartbroken. I don’t know, I’m still in shock, but it’s crazy that something can change like [that].”