State Police Investigate Fatal Crash on Route 495 in Norton

On Wednesday, October 7, at approximately 7:58 a.m., Massachusetts State Police Troopers from the Foxboro Barracks responded to calls of a single-car motor vehicle crash in Norton on Route 495 northbound, north of Exit 10, which has resulted in one fatality and serious injuries to another victim.

Preliminary investigation by Trooper Brian Mahoney indicates that a 1991 Ford Explorer operated by a 19year-old Michael Lebron from Woonsocket, R.I., entered the median strip on Route 495, where it crashed. Lebron was ejected in the crash and suffered serious injuries and was pronounced deceased at the scene. Nayara DosSantos, 18, of Milford was inside the vehicle and was transported to Rhode Island Hospital with serious injuries.

The facts and circumstances of this crash remain under investigation by Troop H of the Massachusetts State Police, with the assistance of the State Police Collision Analysis Reconstruction Section and the State Police Crime Scene Services Section. Anyone with information pertaining to this crash is asked to contact State Police Foxboro Barracks at (508) 543-8550. The Norton Fire Department and Massachusetts Highway Department assisted troopers at the scene.

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