Crime & Safety

Little Compton Resident Driver in Mass. Crash

The car accident happened in Cape Cod on Saturday.

A Little Compton woman was identified as the driver in a head-on Cape Cod crash that occurred on Saturday.

The Taunton Daily Gazette reported that 55-year-old Denise Wilkie, of Little Compton, drove the Subaru in the crash that resulted in the death of 76-year-old Lucille Francoeur, who was from Warwick.

Police in Wellfleet say Francoeur died after the wreck on Route 6 that happened at about 1:15 p.m. Saturday, when a northbound 2007 Subaru and a southbound 2014 Audi collided head-on. The Audi driver was identified as 46-year-old James Martin of Provincetown, Mass.

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Wilkie and Martin are being treated for serious but non-life threatening injuries at Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis.

The cause of the accident remains under investigation.

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