EAST BRIDGEWATER, Mass. — A 28-year-old Whitman man is dead following a motor vehicle accident that happened Friday afternoon at approximately 3 p.m. on Route 18.
Police Chief Paul O’Brien tells Boston 25 that the East Bridgewater Police Department responded to a fatal crash.
East Bridgewater Police and Fire were dispatched to a report of a crash in the area of 698 Bedford St. on Route 18. Upon arrival, first responders determined that a single vehicle left the roadway, crashed into multiple objects, and rolled over.
Boston 25 was told the driver had to be extricated from inside his vehicle by members of the East Bridgewater Fire Department and was pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities later identified the driver as Christopher Dobbins, Age 28, of Whitman.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the East Bridgewater Police Department, the Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section, and the Plymouth County Bureau of Criminal Investigation.