Car crash kills Mass. couple after visit to ice cream parlor
An elderly Massachusetts couple were killed in a two-vehicle collision Thursday in Cumberland, R.I., according to Cumberland police. Authorities identified the victims as Charles Langille, 87, and his wife, Laurette, 77, of Foxborough.
Laurette Langille was identified about 5 p.m. yesterday by the Rhode Island state medical examiner as the female victim, police said in a press release.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation, the release said, but Police Chief John R. Desmarais said the couple’s minivan was turning left out of an ice cream parlor on Diamond Hill Road when they were hit by an oncoming box truck. Charles was operating the couple’s vehicle, and Laurette was in the passenger seat.
“There was a box truck heading southbound on the road, which struck the minivan and killed the elderly couple inside,’’ Desmarais said.
The driver of the truck was treated for minor injuries at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.
The driver’s identity was not released.
Cumberland detectives, along with the Rhode Island State Police, are investigating.
