Justice · Route 1 crashRevere Route 1 crash: Triton high school senior killed in wrong-way collisionAired October 26, 2026 at 1:08 PM UTCWritten October 26, 2026 at 1:13 PM UTCRead the write-upThis storyTranscript · LOADING0:07A wrong way collision killed a high school senior on Route1.0:10Another driver survived with minor injuries and was taken to a hospital.0:13Investigators still need to determine where the student entered the highway against0:17traffic and why.0:18The student attended Triton Regional High School in Byfield, where the school0:21community is mourning a senior.0:23The driver was a juvenile and died at the scene.0:25Authorities haven't released the student's name.0:27The collision happened early Sunday, October25 .0:30Massachusetts State Police say the student was heading south in the highway's0:33northbound lanes when the two vehicles struck head on.0:37The vehicles collided just south of Sgt.0:39Street in Revere, near the Saugus Line.0:41Police have located the impact, but haven't identified where the student entered the0:45northbound lanes.0:46Sergeant Street marks the crash vicinity.0:48Several people called nine hundred and eleven about a vehicle moving against traffic0:52in the Saugus and Revere area before three thirty that morning.0:55The timing is approximate.0:56Around three twenty.0:57Three has been given for both the collision and the police response.1:01So the precise sequence is unclear.1:03The student's vehicle was engulfed in flames when officers arrived, and emergency1:07crews put out the fire.1:08The second driver was taken by ambulance to a Boston hospital.1:11That driver's injuries were classified as minor.1:14Traffic stood still for about an hour and a half during the emergency work.1:17The highway closure lasted several hours, with Route1 reopening around eight fifteen1:22Sunday morning.1:22The stand still covered only part of that disruption.1:25Massachusetts had already announced a statewide expansion of Rong Way driving1:29prevention in June.1:30The plan called for more than four hundred locations, with work spread across1:34multiple phases and years.1:36The program was estimated to cost fifty million to seventy-five million dollars.1:40It includes adding wrong way detection to existing signalized intersections and1:44highway cameras, alongside better signs and targeted road improvements.1:48Installation work was underway on Route128 between Peabody and Gloucester in August.1:53A separate reported total of more than eight hundred prevention locations hasn't1:57been confirmed.1:58Mastot hasn't said whether equipment covered this stretch of Route One.2:01Mastot was scheduled to discuss wrong way prevention at a news conference Monday,2:05October twenty-sixth.2:07Any new announcements from that briefing aren't yet clear.2:09State police detectives assigned to the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office2:13are investigating the fatal collision.2:14They've identified the student's direction of travel and the head on impact.2:18They haven't explained how the student entered those lanes or why the vehicle was2:21traveling against traffic.Explore with HeyDexFollow via RSSThe shortThe short ↗
