3rd death in three days
The Rhode Island State Police announced on Saturday they are investigating yet another deadly crash the third in three days.
At approximately 3:30 Saturday morning, troopers from the Hope Valley Barracks, as well as members from the West Greenwich Police and Fire Departments, responded to a single-vehicle crash on Route 95 South.
The investigation found that a 2010 Mini-Cooper, operated by Jason E. Reid, age 45, of Concord, New Hampshire, was traveling on Route 95 South in the Town of West Greenwich. After passing the Route 3 overpass, Reid failed to negotiate a left bending curve and veered right, consequently leaving the roadway. As a result, the vehicle entered the right shoulder, struck a large rock structure and rolled over.GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST
At 28, he was also perhaps the youngest up to then.
Brad, a Pawtucket firefighter, likely got infected as an EMT. By late March 2020, he was doing eight or more COVID runs a day, carrying patients down staircases.
Now, having caught the virus himself, Brad was in a room in Miriam Hospital’s ICU. He felt like he was trying to catch his breath after a sprint, except he couldn’t.
Brad was in an isolation room, a half dozen staff moving fast around him. Someone strapped a clear BiPAP mask around his nose and mouth to push in oxygen.
In his work, he’d often dealt with people on the worst days of their lives heart attacks, injuries, overdoses.