Thursday, 4:30 PM
Counselors at Lexington High after student killed in crash
By Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff
Grief counselors will be at Lexington High School today as students return after one of their classmates died this weekend in a single-car crash on Route 2.
"We will provide an opportunity for students to gather together with the support of our counselors, nurses, social workers, and clinicians throughout the school day," said high school Principal Michael P. Jones, in an e-mail to parents. "We will share further information with students and faculty as it becomes available."
Andrew Stone, 18, of Lexington, had been in the Lexington High School class of 2007. He died Friday night when the 2000 Audi he was riding in swerved off the road and hit a tree.
Authorities have not released the name of the 17-year-old who was driving the Audi because he is a juvenile, according to Corey Welford, a spokesman for Middlesex District Attorney Gerald T. Leone Jr. The driver was treated and released from Lahey Clinic Medical Center in Burlington.
An initial state police investigation found that "alcohol appears to have been a factor" in the crash, though no specific evidence was cited in a press release issued early Saturday morning. A state police spokeswoman said today that toxicology tests are still pending that will definitively determine if the driver had been drinking.
