Pickup truck crashes in front of home in Hatfield

By OWEN BOSS
Staff Writer

HATFIELD — A pickup truck that careened off Elm Street Friday night crashed several feet short of slamming into the front porch of a house nearby. The two occupants of the truck escaped with minor injuries.

According to Hatfield Fire Capt. Stephen Gaughan, at 9:57 p.m., local firefighters, police officers and members of the state police responded to 137 Elm Street, where a GMC Sierra pickup truck had left the roadway, smashed through a barrier and two road signs, and nearly flipped over on the front lawn of the house. The truck came to a stop on top of a large boulder in front of the house.

“It came pretty close to hitting the house itself, but there was no structural damage involved,” Gaughan said.

According to street lists and the telephone directory, Brian McGrath, 51, and Shaun McGrath, 28, live at 137 Elm St.

One of the pickup’s two occupants was taken by ambulance to Baystate Medical Center in Springfield to be treated for minor injuries sustained in the accident, Gaughan said. Police declined to identify the occupants of the truck Friday night until their family members could be notified and said that the cause of the accident remains under investigation.

Owen Boss can be reached at oboss@gazettenet.com.