B2 CONCORD MONITOR Monday, November 9, 1998 Massachusetts Fatal crash may test teen driving law ASHBY, Mass. A car driven by a 16-year-old driver returning from an off-season hockey game went out of control and crashed on an unlit rural road here, killing an 18- year-old passenger. But police are looking at Friday's fatal crash as more than just a tragic accident. It is, they say, a potential test of a new state law cracking down on young, inexperienced drivers. The law, which took effect Wednesday, stiffens penalties against teenagers for a number of infractions, including speeding.
Killed in the crash was Brian C. Kane, who died at the scene. The boy behind the wheel had gotten his license only nine days before the accident on Route 119. Police say the young driver could face several charges, including speeding and passing in a nopassing zone. He was treated and released Saturday from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, The Sun of Lowell reported.
Ashby Police Chief Robert Will- a a a the new law, designed to cut down on teen driving deaths, could increase potential penalties against the driver. hauck said the crash occurred as a caravan of drivers from GrotonDunstable Regional High School was returning Friday evening from an off-season hockey game at Cushing Academy in Ashburnham. The boy, driving his father's car, apparently tried to pass another car on a hill where the speed limit is 40 mph, Willhauck said. Lt. James Victoria said the car was going at least 78 miles per hour.
Police said the teen turned back into his own lane when he saw headlights. But the car fishtailed, hit a stump and flipped over, smashing into a tree, Willhauck said. Ashby police are trying to determine whether the new law, designed to cut down on teen driving deaths, could increase potential penalties against the driver. Among other provisions, the law requires that teens drive free of crashes and tickets for six months before advancing from a learner's permit to a junior operator's license. It suspends for 180 days the license of drivers under 18 who get a second speeding ticket.
It also prohibits teens from driving their under-18 friends without a licensed I driver over 21 in the car in their first six months after get ting a junior operator's license. Of all teens killed in accidents, two-thirds were in a car driven by a peer, according to the American Automobile Association of Southern New England. Vermont Medical costs on the verge of increasing MONTPELIER, Vt. Medical costs in the state are poised to jump as the state's two biggest health insurers are seeking average rate increases of between 10 and 15 percent for most of their customers. Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Vermont and Kaiser Permanente blame the increases on rising prescription drug costs, new and expensive medical technologies and growth in demand for health care in Vermont.
Weather The Associated Press State regulators will review the rate requests. If approved, the new rates would go into effect at the start of the year and cover at least 175,000 Vermonters. The prospect of steep increases prompts health policy experts to say that insurance companies, employers, hospitals, doctors and other health -care professionals are not doing enough to rein in medical expenses. "Medical costs are going up, and they're not being managed as well as they should be by the private sector," Gov. Howard Dean said.
Four-day forecast Tuesday Chance of rain 40s Local forecast Partly sunny. High in the 40s. Light wind. Partly cloudy at night. Low in the 20s.
Local data As of 5 p.m. yesterday Temperature High yesterday, 47 Low yesterday, 37 Normal high yesterday, 51 Normal low yesterday, 30 Normal high today, 50 Normal low today, 29 Deficiency this month, 9 High this month, 52, 1st Low this month, 19, 6th Record high today, 74, 1945 Record low today, 11, 1992 Precipitation Yesterday, 0.00 Total this month, 0.00 Normal for month, .84 Total this year, 32.82 Normal to date, 30.39 Astronomical Sunrise today, 6:31 a.m. Sunset today, 4:28 p.m. Sunlight, 9 hours, 57 minutes Hampton Beach tides today High, 2:59 a.m., 3:12 p.m. Low, 9:14 a.m., 9:57 p.m.
Wednesday Chance of rain mid to upper 40s Northern Thursday Chance of mid 40s New Monday, November AccuWeather0 forecast for Burlington Rutland Lebanon CONCORD N.Y. In some respects, Vermont's health care system is the envy of other states. Vermont has a low rate of uninsured people. About 7 at percent of Vermonters, about 40,000 people, are uninsured. "I think Vermont has made significant progress in trying to health care system, but there's still to improve the effectiveness of its a long way to go.
And I think that's true across the country," said Paul Harrington of Middlesex, a former state lawmaker who helped draft Vermont's health care reform plan in in the early 1990s. Friday rain Chance of rain mid 40s England conditions and high temperatures. Bangor Portland Portsmouth 1998 AccuWeather, In Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Showers T-storms Rain Flurries Snow Ice To the south Boston area Partly sunny. High near 50.
Partly cloudy at night. Becoming mostly cloudy late. Low in the upper 30s. R.I. Partly sunny.
High in the lower 50s. Partly cloudy at night. Becoming mostly cloudy late. Low in the 30s. Extremes High: 80 at Miami, Florida Low: 7 at Sheridan, Wyoming The National Weather Service broadcasts information at 162.40 on the high frequency FM band.
Information also is available at 225-5191. The forecast for noon, Monday, Nov. 9. Lines separate high temperature zones for the day. 20s 40s 50s 30s 30s 30s 40s 30s 40s 40s 30s 30s 50s 40s 40s 50s 50s 60s 50s 409.
50s 60s. 60s 60s 60s 709 70s 608 708 10s 70s 20s 808 30s 405 80s 708 FRONTS: 1998 AccuWeather, Inc. COLD WARM STATIONARY Pressure: High Low Showers Rain T-storms Flurries Snow Ice Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy Obituaries Harold U. Grant, Jr.
Harold Ulysses Grant 68, of Curtice Avenue died yesterday at the Hospice House after a long illness. He was born on Nov. 22, 1929 in Marion, Ind. He served in the Navy and later managed a Sheraton motel in Chicago. He moved to the Concord area 25 years ago.
He was a supervisor at Allied Leather of Penacook for many years. He belonged to the United Baptist Church. He loved animals, especially cats, and was a horse racing fan. He also was a fan of Indiana basketball. Visiting hours are Thursday from 1 to 1:30 p.m.
at the United Baptist Church in Concord. A memorial service will follow. He is survived by his wife, Shirley; two daughters, Martha and Karen; a brother, Charles; 13 grandchildren; several greatgrandchildren; and many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by a son, Chris. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the SPCA, 130 Washington Penacook, 03303.
Affordable Funeral and Cremation Services, a division of Nutfield Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Beatrice E. Landry BOSCAWEN Beatrice E. (Lyons) Landry, 96, died yesterday the Merrimack County Nursing Home after a long illness. She was born in Millbury, the daughter of the late William and Mary (Cote) Lyons.
She lived in Winchendon, before moving Contoocook and then Boscawen. She was predeceased by her husband, George Landry. She was a communicant of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Winchendon and belonged to the Lt. Frederick Wilder White Post Veterans of Foreign Wars of Winchendon. She worked with the former Mason Parker Company for Hey It's Time Your Christmas will be his final chance All a Attention We are now accepting address.
Have your them electronically We must receive your Dear Santa, Name: more than 40 years and later with New Hampshire Ball Bearing Company until retiring in 1969. She is survived by one daughter, Gertrude Whitehead, of Warner; two grandchildren; and four greatgrandchildren. Her funeral will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday in the FletcherHebert Funeral Home in Winchendon. The Rev.
Roland L. Gamanche will officiate. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Calling hours will be from 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.
Donations may be made in her name to the St. Jude Children's Hospital, 501 St. Jude's Place, Memphis, 38105-1905. The arrangements are being made by Fletcher-Hebert Funeral Home in Winchendon. Leslie M.
Greene ALSTEAD Leslie M. 62, of Acworth Road, died at home on Friday, Nov. 6. He was born Boscawen, the of Edwin and Eva (Hackett) Greene. He was a 1954 graduate Penacook High School and a graduate of Springfield College Massachusetts.
He taught and coached at High School in Alstead from 1966 and later at the Fall High School in Claremont 1969 to 1991. He was co-founder of the Challenge Program, which in 1970, and he continued with the program until he retired. He was a member of the Town Snowmobile Club. He was avid outdoorsman who hunting and fishing, rock ice climbing, whitewater and back-packing. He is survived by his wife years, Sandra (Nielsen) Greene; mother, Eva Greene of three sons, Torrey Greene Acworth, Gregory Greene Charlestown, and Greene of Newport; one Edwin Greene Jr.
of one sister, Carolyn Benoit Penacook; and three granddaughters. to Write Letters to here before you know it preparations for the Holiday to let him know what you letters received by the special section titled "Letters December 11th and forwarded addition, see your letter Concord Monitor Web site. section publishes, a few featured on the site! So take a few minutes to form below or use any piece your letters right away to fax them to our fax number Teachers: Letters to Santa at our class write their letters to our e-mail address letter by Friday, November 27th to A memorial service will be held tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Third Congregational Church in Alstead with the Rev. Janice Howe officiating.
Calling hours are today from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Fenton HenFuneral in Bellows Falls, Vt. nessey Memorial donations may be made to Project Challenge, in care of Linda Tenney, Connecticut River Bank, Charlestown, 03603. Simone B. Raymond Greene, his son of 1958 in Vilas 1961 to Mountain from Project started working Tri an enjoyed climbing, canoeing of 40 his Penacook; of Philip brother, Plymouth, of and have deadline Each letters join the and below.
be ALLENSTOWN Simone (Boisvert) Raymond, 78, of Main Street, died yesterday at the Concord Hospital after a long illness. She was daughter of Ernest and Minnie (Stokes) Boisvert. She was a lifelong resident of the PembrokeAllenstown area and a graduate of the Presentation of Mary Academy in Hudson. She worked for Textron in Suncook and later worked for 20 years at Dictaphone until she retired in 1982. She was a communicant of St.
John the Baptist Church and a member of the Ladies of St. Anne and the St. Theresa Rosebush Society. She was predeceased by a sister, Charmaine Charland. She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Norbert Raymond; a son, Richard Raymond of Allenstown; a daughter, Lucille Nolin of Pembroke, five grandchildren; a brother, Norman "Joe" Boisvert of Allenstown; and nieces and nephews.
Calling hours are today from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at the Petit Funeral Home in Pembroke. Prayer services will be held at 3 p.m. at the funeral home by the Ladies of Anne and at 7:30 p.m. by the St.
Theresa Rosebush Society. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated tomorrow at 10 a.m. at St. John the Baptist Church by the Rev. C.
Peter Dumont. Burial will be in the St. John the Baptist Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to St. John the Baptist 125th Anniversary Restoration Fund, 10 School Suncook, 03275.
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