ANDOVER (AP) – Police are seeking to charge a Haverhill woman involved in a two-car accident that killed a New Hampshire woman and her unborn daughter.
Susan McNamara, 39, has been cited with two misdemeanor counts of negligent operation of a motor vehicle resulting in death, Lt. James D. Hashem told the Eagle-Tribune of Lawrence. McNamara was driving on the wrong side of the road, police said.
McNamara’s car struck a vehicle driven by Krista Raymond, 22, who was eight months pregnant. Raymond was killed, along with her unborn child.
In the Nov. 17 crash, McNamara was turning left out of a daycare center on Route 28 in Andover, and struck Raymond’s car. Raymond was on her way to a surprise baby shower at another daycare center, Bright Horizons Family Solutions in North Reading, where she worked.
“She was traveling north in the southbound lane when the two vehicles collided,” Hashem said of McNamara.
McNamara, who along with her three children was not injured, will be summonsed before a Lawrence District Court magistrate, who will decide if formal charges should be filed. She could face up to a total of five years in jail.