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1 killed, 1 seriously injured in van-motorcycle crash.


Byline: Stephen H. Foskett Jr.

OXFORD - A man driving a motorcycle was killed and a female passenger was seriously injured when the motorcycle collided with a van turning from a parking lot onto Route 20 yesterday afternoon.

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 state police, Joann Burlingame, 51, of Charlton, was exiting a parking lot on the eastbound east·bound  
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Going toward the east.


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going towards the east

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 side of Route 20 in a 1999 Chevrolet Astrovan around 1:30 p.m., when her van collided with the 2005 Harley-Davidson motorcycle.

State police said 52-year-old Ronald Tarascio of Enfield, Conn., was taken by ambulance to Harrington Memorial Hospital in Southbridge, where he was later pronounced dead. His passenger, 52-year-old Debra DeRosa of East Windsor East Windsor is the name of the following places in the United States of America:
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, Conn., was taken by ambulance to UMass Memorial Medical Center - University Campus in Worcester with what state police described as serious injuries.

Ms. Burlingame suffered minor injuries, and was taken by ambulance to Harrington Memorial Hospital, state police said.

The crash shut down Route 20 for two hours while state police investigated the accident, near Schmidt Equipment in Oxford.

State police said the crash is still under investigation by the State Police Collision Analysis and Reconstruction Section and the Crime Scene Services Section.

Oxford police, fire, and emergency medical services An Emergency medical service (abbreviated to initialism "EMS" in many countries) is a service providing out-of-hospital acute care and transport to definitive care, to patients with illnesses and injuries which the patient believes constitutes a medical emergency.  personnel, along with Charlton EMS personnel and crews from the Massachusetts Highway Department The Massachusetts Highway Department (MassHighway) is the highway department in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, responsible for the design, construction and maintenance of all state highways and bridges and signage of numbered routes. , assisted, state police said.

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Date:Sep 3, 2009
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