No Injuries After Car Crashes into Apartment Window on Frairy Street

There were no injuries after a motor vehicle crashed into a bedroom window of an apartment at 59 Frairy St. just before 7 p.m. Saturday, according to Medfield Police. 

"We are just thankful that the guy who lives in there wasn’t in bed," said Medfield police officer Larz Anderson, who is investigating the accident. "Thankfully there’s no injuries. We can fix the building, we can fix the car, you know it’s hard to put people back together."

Anderson said received a call at 6:50 p.m. that a car crashed into the apartment building at 59 Frairy St. The female operator was checked for injuries by Medfield EMTs. 

"She was fine," Anderson said. "We brought the EMTs down to evaluate her and make sure she was [OK]. She was kind of freaked out when the ambulance got here. They evaluated her and she was fine. I think she was just kind of shook up from the whole accident."

Anderson said the cause of the accident is unknown and will undergo further investigation at the Medfield Police Station. 

"We don’t know as far as what happened," Anderson said. "[The operator] said she was pulling up to the curb and her boyfriend was next to her [in another vehicle] and said she was going maybe five miles an hour and all of the sudden the car just accelerated."

The accident caused "fairly extensive damage" to the apartment building, according to Anderson. 

"Damage to the brick and the wall on the inside of the apartment was pushed out and the glass obviously was busted up and scattered through [the tenant's] apartment," Anderson said. 

The building manager arrived to the scene and spoke with Medfield Police and the involved parties and Medfield's building inspector reviewed the damage before deeming the vehicle OK to be removed, according to Anderson. 

"[He] said it was OK to remove the car and the building wasn’t going to fall down," said Anderson.

Police will continue to investigate the accident and review the photos.

"We’ll go over some of the pictures that we took and see," Anderson said. "It’s kind of hard to really decipher what exactly happened. Whether it’s with pictures or sometimes you’re at the scene. We’ll do our best to try and make some sense of it."

Anderson said the operator and her boyfriend believe the car malfunctioned and that they would get the vehicle inspected before it is repaired. 

"She’s pretty sure she was standing on the brake … it’s hard to tell," Anderson said. "The floor mat wasn’t stuffed under, which does happen on occasion. Everything appeared to be functioning as it was supposed to as [the tow truck operator] pulled it away. It could have been just a glitch in the computer system. A lot of times they don’t even have accelerator cables anymore. Years ago they used to stick but now they do everything electronically. It may be just a glitch in the computer system or maybe operator error thinking that you’re on the break."

Anderson said he told the vehicle operator to follow through the investigation while the car is repaired. 

"Maybe they will be able to find something," Anderson said. "I told her to really be involved in it when the vehicle is repaired so she can explain exactly what she thinks happened. Hopefully they’ll find something on the electronics end of it."

While Medfield Police said the accident was not a result of drug, alcohol or cell phone use, Anderson said the investigation will likely result in the operator being cited. 

"She’ll probably end up being cited for failure to use care and caution and failure to stop," said Anderson. "If they do find something wrong with the car then she can just appeal it and say this is what happened."

The tenant of the apartment unit the vehicle crashed into said he would not be displaced and the building manager had a crew cleaning up the glass and boarding up the broken window.