LEWISTON — The Sunday evening accident that critically injured a Massachusetts teenager was preceded by postings on Twitter.
Hailey Murphy of Wakefield, Mass., tweeted at 5:08 p.m. Saturday “This car ride will be the death of me” as she and her graduating classmates from Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational School in Wakefield, Mass., were headed to a rented house in Rangeley.
It’s not known if she was referring to the boredom of a long car ride or if it was connected to a tweet sent an hour earlier by Murphy: “‘@alyssadevincent: Marilenis just crashed and we didn’t even leave Saugus yet … This should be interesting’ were (sic) gonna die.”
Marilenis Waldron, 17, of Saugus, Mass., was driving Sunday at about 6 p.m. when the car went out of control on Route 4 in Rangeley, rolled over and landed on its roof. Front-seat passenger, Janessa Gordon, 18, of Melrose, Mass., who was not wearing a seat belt, was critically injured. She was to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.
At about 10 p.m. Saturday, Gordon, using the Twitter name @janessaxox, tweeted: “Have a wicked bad feeling I’ll be in a jail cell by the end of the night“.
The tweets are part of a collection curated by the Sun Journal (https://twitter.com/sunjournal/lists/vokies) that show much anticipation of a good time by the students visiting Maine. After the accident Sunday evening, the tweets predominately expressed shock and support for Gordon.
“Prayers for my friend tonight. . . . I love you norgi you are strong and will get through this,” Murphy tweeted shortly after midnight Monday.
One woman only identified as @JgxGio must have been in the car with Gordon and Waldron on Sunday night. She tweeted about being in the hospital and only having sprains. About 11:30 p.m. Sunday, she tweeted: “Just seeing you and me not being able to get you out of the car is what’s torturing me.”
Police have not released the names of all the people in the car involved in the accident. It’s not known how many students from the vocational school made the trip to Rangeley.
@JgxGio also summed up what most of her friends were expressing on Twitter: “You never think something so bad and the horrible stories you hear about can actually happen to you and your friends.”
Tweets from https://twitter.com/sunjournal/lists/vokies
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