27-Year-Old Woman Thrown From Wheelchair Dies After Lowell Crash

LOWELL, MA — Police and the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office are investigating a crash that killed a 27-year-old woman in a wheelchair and hospitalized the man who was pushing her Saturday.

Police said a 39-year-old Carlisle man was pushing a Lowell woman in a wheelchair near the corner of School and Cross streets Just before 7 p.m. Saturday when someone driving a Chevy Silverado with a plow attached hit them.

Police said the woman was thrown under a parked car across the street. She died from her injuries the next morning in the hospital. The Carlisle man who was pushing her wheelchair is still in the hospital, they said. The District Attorney's office did not release the names of the two.

Authorities said drivers of both cars are cooperating with the investigation.

It's unclear how much the weather played in the tragedy.

Saturday a coastal storm swept across the region with winds upwards of 48 miles per hour, and bringing a mix of rain and wet snow making for a slushy mix on the roads. The power went out for more than 1,000 in the region Saturday, too. Although forecasters predicted upwards of 8 inches was predicted in the greater Lowell, less than 4 inches fell.