For Immediate Release - June 27, 2010

State Police Investigate Fatal Crash on Blotz Road in Washington

On Saturday June 26 2010 at approximately 5:38 a.m., Troopers assigned to the State Police Barracks in Cheshire responded to a single-vehicle crash on Blotz Road in Washington. The crash resulted in one fatal injury..

Preliminary investigation by Trooper Hanna Harbour indicates that a 26-year-old Chad Beeler was operating a 1989 Ford Mustang east on Blotz Road when the Ford went off the roadway and rolled over, partially ejecting the operator.. The operator was seriously injured and pronounced deceased at the scene..

The facts and circumstances of this crash remain under investigation by Troop B of the Massachusetts State Police, with the assistance of the State Police Collision Analysis Reconstruction Section, the State Police Crime Scene Services Section. .

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