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An 18-year-old Lowell, Mass., woman was killed and a Providence woman was injured in a one-car crash on Route 195 East in Somerset early this morning, according to the Massachusetts State Police.

The crash, near the Lee River Road overpass, happened around 2 a.m. and closed the left and center travel lanes of Route 195 there for about four hours, according to the state police.

The woman who died, Anita Ruom, 18, of Lowell, Mass., was a passenger in a 2001 Chevrolet Impala driven by Rosin So, 21, of Providence. Ruom was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown from the car.

The driver, who was wearing a seatbelt, was trapped in the car, extricated by emergency workers and taken to Charlton Memorial Hospital in New Bedford and then Rhode Island Hospital in Providence with minor injuries, according to the state police.

The car had been heading east when the driver lost control and struck the median guardrail, then crossed all lanes and struck the guardrail on the right side of the road before crossing the highway again and coming to rest on top of the median guardrail, facing west in the eastbound lanes, the state police said.

 Tags  Rhode Island Hospital Somerset

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