2 boys in running vehicle unconscious, hospitalized
Two boys were sent to the hospital after they were found unconscious in a running vehicle that had become stuck in mud in a wooded area of Lunenburg.
Three adults and the boys had been four-wheeling in the woods when one of three Jeep-style vehicles got stuck, Lunenburg police told the Associated Press, as well as local television stations. The adults apparently left the boys in the woods when they went for help.
Police received a rescue call around 8:30 p.m. about the incident, which occurred in a wooded area near an auto body shop on Massachusetts Avenue, according to Lunenburg police.
"Two of the children were placed in that vehicle - it was an enclosed vehicle - to keep warm," Lunenburg police chief Dan Bourgeois said on WBZ-TV last night. "They went back some time later - we're not sure how much of a period of time - and they located the children and they were both passed out unconscious."
Investigators are looking into the possibility that the car's exhaust pipe became blocked by mud.
The Worcester District Attorney's Office sent a detective to assist with the investigation, said Tim Connolly, spokesman for the district attorney. He refused to provide additional information.
