“It’s just awful,” one woman said, looking down at the fractured pieces of a headstone above her grandfather’s resting place. “I don’t know how that could happen in a cemetery.”
The car smashed headstones into several pieces that needed to be collected, toppled weighty stone monuments on their sides, and snapped plaques used to mark the graves of veterans.
Parts of some headstones were launched dozens of feet from their original location, while others were stained with motor oil when a driver veered off the road and plowed his car into St. Mary Cemetary in Northampton, Mass.
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