A man is dead and a woman is injured after a taxi crashed in Boston, Massachusetts on Saturday night.
Massachusetts State Police say they responded to a single-car crash off Soldiers Field Road at around 10:30 p.m.
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Authorities say the driver, identified as a 68-year-old man from Lynn, lost control of the taxi near Weeks Footbridge, went off the road and struck a tree.
The driver was taken to Brigham and Women’s Hospital where he was pronounced dead. The passenger, a 24-year-old woman from Cambridge survived the crash with non life-threatening injuries, according to police.
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The crash is under investigation.
