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Photo Tim Caldwell
Edith Sweet, the driver of the Ford Escort shown on left, died when her vehicle was hit head-on in a collision on Route 6. |
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Fatal crash in Truro
Banner Daily Update Sat. Nov. 10
By Sue Harrison
Banner Staff
TRURO - One person was killed and two others injured in another crash along Route 6 on the Outer Cape. The accident happened about 4:30 p.m. Friday on Route 6 between the Truro Transfer Station and Jack's Firewood stand.
Eyewitnesses and the Truro police say it appears a Subaru Legacy Outback wagon going toward Provincetown crossed over the center-line and collided head-on with a Ford Escort wagon traveling toward Wellfleet. A Toyota Rav4 behind the Escort could not avoid the collision and also crashed.
The driver of the Escort, 55-year old Edith Sweet of Truro, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the Outback, 63-year old David Gilman of Truro, had to be extricated using the Jaws of Life and was taken to Cape Cod Hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. The Rav4 driver, 64-year old Katherine Stillman of Wellfleet, was not injured. Sweet’s daughter Suzanne Sweet Davis, 15, was also in the Escort. She was also taken to CCH with non life-threatening injuries.
Edith Sweet was a popular assistant preschool teacher at Truro Central School.
Car parts and broken glass littered the highway which remained closed while accident reconstruction was done.
The crash comes 10 days after another deadly wreck on Route 6 just a few miles up in Wellfleet. Truro resident Dayna Grzywoc was killed in that accident near Cottontail Road.
The highway through Truro and Wellfleet is one lane both ways similar to the way the stretch between exits 9 and 12 (at one time between exits 7 and 12) used to be. That stretch was the scene of frequent head-on crashes for many years until a divider and other improvements were made.
Tim Caldwell of Cape Wide News contributed to this report.
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Nov 8th, 2007