A second victim remains in stable condition at Baystate Medical Center and a third was treated and released.
WESTFIELD – Police have identified the 23-year-old man killed in a one-car accident on Route 202 early Wednesday as city resident Dzmitry Khotski.
Khotski, driving west near Hampton Ponds, was ejected from his BMW. A passenger, 22-year-old Raman Marozau, also ejected, suffered facial injuries and is in stable condition at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Sgt. Edward Murphy said.
A third passenger, Dzmitry Maskaleu, 24, was treated at Baystate and released, Murphy said. All three victims share the same address of 917 Southampton Road.
The fatality is the third traffic-related death in Westfield in a week.
Murphy said investigators believe speed was a factor in the crash which remains under investigation by city and state police. “We are still trying to piece the pieces of the puzzle together here,” he said.
Police had a difficult time contacting Khotski’s closest relatives because they all live in Belarus. “There is no next-of-kin here, we had to go through the State Department,” Murphy said.
The crash occurred shortly after 12:15 a.m. The car, a 1998 BMW, crossed over to the eastbound lane, struck a guardrail, crossed back into the westbound lane and then off the roadway.
The BMW came to rest on a dirt pile near the Russian Evangelical Baptist Church which is undergoing an expansion, Murphy said.
Police closed that section of the roadway, also known as North Road, for about 4½ hours while they investigated the crash.