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August 29, 2009 - For immediate release:

State Police Investigate Fatal Crash on Route 90 in Weston

On August 27, 2009, at 2:12 a.m. Troopers assigned to the State Police Barracks in Weston responded to a single-vehicle crash, in which the car struck a toll booth, at the interchange of 128 to Route 90 westbound. The crash resulted in one fatality.

Preliminary investigation by Trooper Francis McGrail indicates that a 2007 Volkswagen Passat operated by 25-year-old Kunal G. Motwane of East Boston had failed to stop for Waltham Police on Route 128 southbound. A short time later Waltham Police located the Volkswagen, which had crashed into a Massachusetts Turnpike toll booth within the interchange 14 plaza in Weston. Waltham Police contacted State Police and requested assistance.

Mr. Motwane suffered serious injuries and was transported by ambulance to Newton-Wellesley Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased. The toll booth was unoccupied at the time of the crash and there were no injuries to any Turnpike employees. 

The facts and circumstances of the crash, including the sequence of events prior to it, remain under investigation by Troop E of the Massachusetts State Police with the assistance of the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section, the State Police Crime Scene Services Section, Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. 

The Weston Fire Department and EMS assisted Troopers at the scene.

No further information is available at this time. Please do not call the barracks directly.