Two people are dead after a crash Monday evening in Boston, Massachusetts State Police announced.
Troopers responded to the area of 1800 Soldiers Field Road around 7:15 p.m. for a crash involving two vehicles, an Acura RDX and an Infiniti Q50.
According to police, there were two people in the Acura pulling out of a business when an Infiniti struck them. The Acura driver, an 85-year-old Belmont man, and his passenger, an 83-year-old woman, were taken to a local hospital with life-threatening injuries. The man died shortly after arriving, and the woman died from her injuries overnight, police said.
Their names were not released Tuesday.
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There were three people in the Infiniti who were taken to an area hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries, police said.
All lanes of Soldiers Field Road were closed for approximately two hours Monday night to accommodate the on-scene investigation. Boston Fire and EMS, as well as the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, assisted.
Further details were not immediately available. An investigation into the crash is active and ongoing.
