UPDATE: Victims identified in fatal East Bridgewater crash

May 19, 2018 9:51 pm

By: Chloe Leshner

cleshner@abc6.com

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EAST BRIDGEWATER, MA (WLNE) – Police have identified the victims in a single-car crash that left four teenagers dead Saturday afternoon in East Bridgewater.

East Bridgewater Police received 911 calls shortly after 4:00 p.m. Saturday reporting a car into a tree on West Street. Police and Fire units responded and located a single vehicle with five male occupants.

Three of the occupants in the vehicle, identified as Christopher Desir, 17, or Brockton, Eric Sarblah, 17, of Stoughton and Nick Joyce, 16, of Stoughton, were pronounced dead at the scene.

One occupant, David Bell, 17, of Stoughton, was taken to transported to Brockton Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.

The 17-year-old driver of the vehicle was Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton before being transported to Boston Medical Center, where he is currently being treated. His identity has not been released at this time.

All 5 young men are Stoughton High School Students.

"It is actually the worst nightmare of any school administrator," says Marguerite Rizzi, the Superintendent of Stoughton Schools.

Rizzi says to her knowledge, the teens were not going to or from a school event. Two were on the track team and some of them have siblings who go to the high school.

A make-shift memorial is starting at the tree the car hit and grief counselors were available Sunday and will be in the coming weeks at the high school.

"This is not the kind of thing you heal from quickly, the recovery is long. We’re going to do everything that we can do and everything that is necessary to get our students and their families and our staff members through this crisis," says Rizzi.

The cause of the crash is under investigation. The Plymouth County District Attorney’s Office said that investigators are looking at all factors in the crash, including weather and speed.

"This is a tragic, tragic situation and we hope that any and all young drivers who might be out there for any reason this time of the year, this festive time of the year, that everybody is careful and goes slow," says Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz.

The Superintendent says school will be on Monday but she doesn’t anticipate that it will be a normal day.