Couple killed, son injured in violent rollover on I-95
A 4-year-old boy survived a horrific, high-speed rollover crash that killed his parents on Interstate 95 in Sharon early yesterday, even though he was not properly restrained, State Police said.
Juanita Medina was driving her 1995
The car swerved across the highway into the breakdown lane and overturned when the tires hit the dirt shoulder, police said. After rolling over several times, it slammed into a tree and was demolished, police said.
Medina, 27, of Randolph, was not wearing a seat belt and was ''partially ejected" from the car, according to a statement State Police issued yesterday. She was pronounced dead a short time later at Norwood Hospital, police said.
The passenger in the front seat, Oswald Dominguez, 29, of Brockton, was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, but suffered massive trauma and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
The couple's 4-year-old son, whose name was withheld, was in the back seat but sustained only minor injuries and was being treated at Norwood Hospital yesterday, said Trooper Thomas R. Ryan, a State Police spokesman.
Under state law, the boy should have been in a child safety seat, but there was no evidence of any type of child restraint in the car, Ryan said.
''If the child was restrained at all, it was with an adult seat belt," Ryan said.
Ryan said the cause of the crash was still being probed yesterday, but a preliminary investigation suggested excessive speed as a possible factor.
About 15 minutes after the fatality, another crash occurred along the same stretch of I-95, when a car traveling in the northbound left lane was rear-ended, police said.
The 1996 Honda sedan driven by Lisa Decesare, 37, of Cumberland, R.I., was pushed through the left-side guardrail and down an embankment in the median, State Police said. The 1994 Toyota Camry that hit her, driven by David Santiago, 20, of Weymouth, also went through the guardrail and rolled over on top of the Honda, police said.
Decesare was treated for minor injuries at Norwood Hospital, while Santiago was treated for serious injuries at Boston Medical Center. 