LEOMINSTER — On Tuesday at about 5:15 a.m., police responded to a report of a crash on Interstate-190 involving two motor vehicles, which resulted in the death of a 54-year-old Fitchburg man.
The preliminary investigation indicates that one of the vehicles was stopped along the roadway, and the operator was outside of the vehicle when a second vehicle struck the stopped vehicle, according to a press release from the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office.
The operator of the stopped vehicle, Avenel Thernidor, 54, of Fitchburg, was killed in the crash.
The driver of the second vehicle suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, but was taken to a hospital, according to Massachusetts State Police.
Officers with the Leominster Police Department and the Leominster barracks of the Massachusetts State Police, as well as state police assigned to the Worcester County District Attorney’s Office, responded to the crash.
The facts and circumstances of the crash are still under investigation at this time.
The accident happened in the area of mile marker 18.5 on I-190, in the southbound lane, which is not far from the end of I-190 and the intersection with Route 2. The southbound lanes of I-190 were closed between Routes 2 and 117 for about two hours, reopening around 7:30 a.m.
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