Police: Two males flee the scene of a deadly crash on I-95 in Topsfield

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One passenger is useless, one other has life-threatening accidents, based on officers.

Police are trying to find two males who fled the scene of a deadly accident on Interstate 95 in Topsfield Friday afternoon, based on officers.

Massachusetts State Police responded to the crash involving three autos headed southbound, which left one individual useless and one other with life-threatening accidents. 

At round 4:17 p.m., a 2008 GMC Acadia SUV occupied by two Lynn males allegedly “immediately and quickly decelerated and got here to a cease” round mile marker 71, state police mentioned in an announcement.

Behind the Acadia was a 2007 Chevrolet Impala operated by a 52-year-old Peabody man who started to brake and veer left towards the grass median in an try to keep away from hitting the stopped Acadia, based on the assertion.

On the identical time the Impala veered left, a 2006 Chevrolet Specific Van touring within the leftmost of the 4 southbound lanes started to sluggish and transfer left, however was unsuccessful in avoiding the collision with the Impala, based on officers.

The Impala struck the Specific Van inflicting the van to depart the roadway, slide throughout the grass median and roll over one-and-a-half occasions, inflicting two of its 4 passengers to be ejected out of the car, state police reported. 

Police recognized one of many ejected victims as Valkisergio Costa Silva, 44, of Centerville, who died on the scene. The second ejected sufferer was a 30-year-old male who suffered critical life-threatening accidents and was transported by Boston MedFlight to Boston Medical Middle, based on officers.

Police mentioned the van’s third passenger, a 53-year-old male obtained critical accidents and was transported by ambulance to an space hospital. The van’s operator, a 32-year-old Yarmouth male, was transported to an space hospital with minor accidents, based on officers.

The operator of the Impala had “no obvious accidents,” police mentioned.

Other than the crash of the 2 autos, the Acadia pulled over to the breakdown lane the place the 2 male occupants allegedly fled on foot into the adjoining woods, prompting an in depth search by quite a few patrol troopers, state police K9 items, and a state police helicopter, based on the assertion.

Police mentioned David Guzman, 30, of Lynn was positioned and recognized as one of many Acadia’s occupants who fled. The second occupant and alleged driver of the Acadia was noticed by witnesses “working within the space of the seventeenth and 18th holes on the Ferncroft Nation Membership’s golf course,” based on officers.

The suspect is described as a Hispanic male who was carrying a grey T-shirt, and continues to be being sought, police mentioned.

Guzman was charged with interfering with a police officer and booked on the State Police Newbury Barracks, police reported. Guzman posted money bail and his courtroom look is pending.

The crash stays below investigation by the state police and the Essex County District Legal professional’s Workplace.