The Massachusetts State Police today charged a Lowell woman with motor vehicle homicide stemming from a December crash that killed a Seabrook man working on Route 3 in Chelmsford.
Juanita McKenzie, 34, was charged with motor vehicle homicide, marked lanes violation, operating in the breakdown lane and failing to move over for an emergency vehicle.
On Dec. 1, 2009, McKenzie was driving a 2001 Acura MDX on Route 3 northbound in Chelmsford when her vehicle struck the rear of a 1999 Peterbilt truck that was parked inside a work site set-up. Police said she was partially driving in the right-hand lane and the breakdown lane.
Workers Anderson Cadell Jr., 44, of 20 Perkins St., Seabrook, and Salvatore Pintone, 30, of Lynnfield were pinned between their truck and McKenzie's vehicle. Cadell was pronounced dead at the scene, and Pintone was transported with serious injuries to Beth Israel Hospital in Boston by medical helicopter.
The victims were working for United Oil Recovery Inc., an environmental cleanup company. On the day they were struck, they were providing cleanup services at the scene of a previous motor vehicle crash that had occurred several days earlier.
According to his obituary, Cadell was born in Newburyport and loved to go camping, fishing and boating with his family. He also liked playing darts with his friends. He was a truck driver for United Oil Recovery in Newington, N.H., and formerly worked for H&S Tank Cleaning in Peabody. He left a wife, Sherry, and teenage son, A.J.
McKenzie will be summonsed into Lowell District Court for arraignment at a future date.
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