An 18-year-old man has been identified as the person killed in a violent traffic crash in East Boston Wednesday night.
Jonathan A. Hernandez, of Chelsea, was identified as the victim by the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office Thursday afternoon.
Authorities responded to the crash around 7:50 p.m. along Route 1A, also known as William F. McClellan Highway, near Addison Street.
The vehicle Hernandez was in careened into a telephone pole. Another teenager within the vehicle is believed to have suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to
The Boston Globe. A second vehicle was also involved in the crash. The two had collided, sending one vehicle into the pole, the other striking a guardrail.