Published: 07/26/2007 Samaritans rescue two from crash; Beverly, Gloucester men pull Marblehead teens from wreck on Route 128 By Douglas A. Moser Staff writer
Two passing motorists pulled a pair Marblehead teenagers from a burning car after a crash early yesterday morning on Route 128 north at the Concord Street exit in Gloucester. The boys, both 16 and neither with a valid driver's license, were following three other Marblehead teens in another car on their way to a Gloucester beach when the accident occurred at 2:33 a.m., police said. Gloucester police Sgt. Anthony Parisi, the first officer on the scene, said the car was nearly vertical on the grass embankment at the exit; the engine was on fire. The driver, Brett Rome, had a broken leg and facial injuries, said his great-grandfather Simon Rome of Marblehead. A spokesman from Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston said Rome was in serious condition yesterday afternoon. The accident report listed the passenger as Michael Gilson, who was reported in fair condition at Massachusetts General. Two men, Avi Williams of Beverly and Christian Bertolino of Gloucester, stopped to help and had pulled Gilson from the vehicle by the time Parisi arrived. "Avi came running up to me, screaming that there was still another one in the burning car," Parisi said yesterday. "By the time I turned around, called an ambulance and grabbed the fire extinguisher from my trunk, he had run back, and they pulled the other boy from the car. It was that quick." Williams told Parisi he had just left military service and works at Varian Semiconductors at Blackburn Industrial Park in Gloucester. Bertolino, 30, said yesterday he saw the car - registered to Gilson's mother, Lucy Gilson - aflame on his way home from working the night shift at U.S. Food Service in Peabody. He then pulled over. Williams waved him to the car, where he had already pulled Gilson out. Rome was pinned between the steering wheel and his seat. Bertolino called Williams the real hero, saying, "He pulled the first kid out and waved me over." When he pulled over, Bertolino said, "the whole engine was on fire, and the woods around it were on fire." Williams and Bertolino were finally able to get the seat out of its locked position and, as Rome came to, they pulled the teen out of the car. "Honestly, I didn't see any sirens or lights, and I was like, 'Wow, this is a fresh accident scene,'" Bertolino said. "I thought I had to have been the first or second person on the scene, and in my mind, I had to stop."
Parisi said the impact forced the engine backward, compressing part of the passenger compartment. Gloucester firefighters arrived to put out the car fire. Parisi said the vehicle was destroyed. Paramedics treated the boys and transported them to Beverly Hospital, where they were flown by medical helicopter to Massachusetts General. The other car of teens got off the highway at the Rust Island exit, looped around and came back to the scene, police said. Williams could not be reached for comment yesterday. State police are investigating the cause of the crash. The accident report was written by Patrolman Wayne Sargent.
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