By Owen Boss
Staff Writer
CUMMINGTON - Police have identified the elderly couple killed in a car crash on Route 9 Monday as Thomas J. Bowler, 93, and Frances S. Bowler, 81, of 22 Central Ave. in Dalton.
According to police, at 3:10 p.m., the pair were traveling west on Route 9 when their 2003 Toyota Camry veered off of the road and struck a rock ledge about three-quarters of a mile west of where the roadway intersects with Route 112 near the Old Creamery Grocery and Deli.
The scene of Monday's accident is about a half-mile from where another motorist left the road and became trapped inside their vehicle last month; Forgea said an initial investigation showed road conditions didn't play a role in the crash. "One of the contributing factors in that first accident was a buildup of ice on a bridge, and in this latest one that was not the case because the road was clear and dry," Police Chief Dennis Forgea said.
Forgea said a state police accident reconstruction team is investigating the cause of the crash.
Owen Boss can be reached at oboss@gazettenet.com.
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