Police Chief James Cogan provided the following statement to the Acton Exchange:
Wednesday morning, October 1, at approximately 1:12 a.m. Acton Police responded to the area of Lawsbrook Road and School Street in Acton following a motorcycle crash. Upon arrival on scene, police located the operator of the motorcycle, a 35-year-old Methuen man, and the passenger, a 27-year-old Acton woman, who had both been ejected from the motorcycle. The operator was pronounced dead on scene. The female passenger was transported to Emerson hospital where she died from her injuries.
The preliminary investigation suggests that the motorcycle was traveling westbound on Lawsbrook Road when it went off the road striking the curb just after the intersection with School Street, and subsequently striking a guardrail. The crash is under investigation by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, Acton Police, and the Massachusetts State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section.
