1 dies in crash in Sumner Tunnel

BOSTON -- A crash inside Sumner Tunnel - one of Boston’s busiest - left one person dead on Sunday night.

The accident shut down the tunnel. Witnesses said the driver was going extremely fast.

"He didn't stop, he didn't brake, nothing. There was no screeching tires, there was nothing, he just went right into the wall,” said Roman Wunderlich, who witnessed the crash.

Wunderlich described the awful scene inside the Sumner Tunnel on Sunday night. The driver of a white pickup truck came speeding through the tunnel and crashed into a side wall.

"I was looking through the rear-view mirror of my car and all of a sudden, I just saw these lights just coming way faster than they should've been and I’d say he was probably going about 100 miles an hour,” said Wunderlich.

Wunderlich said he was driving with two friends through the Sumner Tunnel, the only other car in the tunnel at the time. They eventually came upon a shocking scene - the truck was in pieces across the road - and called 911.

"It was horrible and I immediately put the car in reverse, I didn't want the girls to see anymore," said Wunderlich.

Soon after, another driver drove up saying he'd seen the same truck just minutes before barrel through the toll at the tunnel's entrance.

"The gentleman that pulled up next to me, he said…I said, 'There's an accident in there, I wouldn't go any further' and he said 'Was it a white pickup truck?'I said ‘yea.’ He said, 'He just blew through the toll booth,'" said Wunderlich.

Police have identified the driver as 39-year-old Brian Hicks. The investigation is ongoing.

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