A 14-year-old girl from Everett, Massachusetts, is in critical condition after she was struck by a car in Chelsea on Sunday night, according to police.
Police said the girl was struck on Beacham Street outside the RISE Dispensary around 8 p.m. and was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston with serious injuries.
Witnesses said a dark-coloured car was moving down Beacham Street when it struck the pavement, knocked over part of a fence, struck a white van and then struck the girl.
The owners of the white van had just gotten into the car when they said they heard the screeching of tires and were then struck.
“I’m still a little bit in shock,” said one of the passengers in the van. “I’m glad that she’s alive and that the girl…you know, seeing her on the ground lying there…she’s never seen anything like that before, so she’s kind of shocking and scary.”
The girl’s father told NBC10 Boston that he looked helpless as it all unfolded. He said that he heard the car on the corner while he was inside a Dunkin’ store. His daughter was walking across the parking lot to meet him and the rest of his family.
That’s when a black Mercedes sedan apparently lost control and crashed into the metal fence that divides the Dunkin’ and Rise dispensary.
The girl’s father identified his daughter as Milena Tene. He said he ran to save her daughter’s life.
“I saw my daughter right away and I knew it was her and I came running,” Teddy Tene said. “They didn’t want me to touch my daughter, they didn’t want me to move my daughter and her lips were turning blue and I didn’t hear anyone and I saved my daughter’s life. I blew air at her and her. Her lips went from purple to pink.”
The girl’s father said his daughter is now in a coma, with head trauma and injuries to her heart and lungs. He is asking for prayers. Police only said the girl is in critical condition at a Boston hospital.
State police said Monday their preliminary investigation shows a 2020 Mercedes sedan driven by Ceserino Borelli, 44, of Watertown, was driving west on Beacham Street at a high speed when the car veered off the road and entered the park. Dunkin parking lot. causing property damage and then driving through a metal fence surrounding the parking lot of the RISE Dispensary cannabis store. The Mercedes struck a parked and occupied Mercedes SUV and then struck the teenager, who was standing in the parking lot of the cannabis dispensary.
After striking the victim, police said the Mercedes sedan continued through the parking lot and struck a parked Nissan SUV. Borelli then got out of the vehicle and walked to the front of the RISE Dispensary before lying down on the sidewalk.
Borelli has been charged with numerous motor vehicle related offenses by Chelsea Police. He was taken to a Boston hospital after complaining of back pain and remains hospitalized under police surveillance.
The investigation into the facts and circumstances of the crash is ongoing, state police said. Additional charges may be filed depending on the results of the investigation.
According to Chelsea Police Chief Keith Houghton, detectives from the Chelsea Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police are continuing to investigate the crash.
