Girl Seriously Injured When Car Crashes Into Salem NH Home; Police Believe ‘Speed And Alcohol’ Were Factors
WBZ
By Web Staff
SALEM, New Hampshire (WBZ) A car crashed into a home in Salem, New Hampshire over the weekend, seriously injuring a girl inside. Police have now identified the driver as 37-year-old Scott Dowd, and say investigators have “determined that speed and alcohol were factors in the crash.”
Police received multiple 911 calls about the crash on Saturday at about 2 p.m. The 2019 Acura RDX was heading south on Silver Brook Road when it went off the road and crashed into the home.
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I saw the glass door just shoot across the room, said Joe Tutrone, who was in the home with his young children when he heard the impact and ran to his son and daughter playing in a front room. He said, I don t know, I don t know Daddy, the house blew up and Giuliana s dead, and I turned around and I couldn t even see her because she was covered in so much sheet rock, said Tutrone.
Tutrone grabbed 5-year-old Giuliana, who was bleeding badly from the neck and face, and ran outside hysterical. The father ran out with the daughter in his arms screaming that He just killed my little girl, said Demers.