Survivor Of Boston Marathon Bombing Dies In Car Crash In Dubai

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: NPR

Updated March 8, 2016·10:01 AM ET

Published March 8, 2016·8:59 AM ET



Marathon bombing victim Victoria McGrath (center) has died at age 23. She's seen here at a benefit concert in May 2013 with (from left) Bruce Mendelsohn, who applied a tourniquet to McGrath's leg after the Boston bombing; first responder Alicia Shambo, McGrath; first responder Tyler Dodd; and Boston firefighter Jimmy Plourde.

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Nearly three years after she survived a serious injury in the Boston Marathon bombing, college student Victoria McGrath has died in Dubai, the victim of a car crash that also killed three others — including a classmate of McGrath's from Northeastern University.

Both McGrath, 23, and her classmate Priscilla Perez Torres, 23, were set to graduate this spring. The close friends had been traveling together in Dubai.
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In 2013, McGrath was in one of the images that became symbolic of the Boston attacks — when firefighter Jimmy Plourde was photographed carrying her to get medical attention; on her left leg is a tourniquet that witness Bruce Mendelsohn had applied.

As the news of McGrath's death spread Monday, Mendelsohn told the Boston Herald, "I will miss her like a hole in my soul and as a representation of something good that we all did."

Read more: http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/08/469618199/survivor-of-boston-marathon-bombing-dies-in-car-crash-in-dubai

[Plucketeer]

1. RIP Victoria.

[blackspade]

2. That's terrible.

Peace to her family.

[Elmer S. E. Dump]

3. RIP Victoria!!

Dubai? Damn, I wish she would have gone to Hawaii instead. No doubt she'd still be alive.

On EDIT: No, I am not blaming the victim!!

[Cavallo]

4. It was a Ferrari crash - a little more info:

Victoria McGrath, a young woman who survived the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, died Sunday in a fiery Ferrari crash in Dubai that also killed her friend, a Canadian boxer and his cousin.

The four victims, identified as 23-year-old McGrath, Priscilla Perez Torres, Toronto fighter Cody Nixon and James Portuondo, were killed in a 12:40 a.m. crash when the sunshine yellow Ferrari 458 Spider slammed into a pole — hours after Nixon boasted of his speedster rental in a haunting Instagram post.

“Just landed into Dubai picked up the Ferrari! Don’t worry I won’t speed ,” he wrote in the caption.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3481617/Boston-marathon-bombing-survivor-killed-Dubai-Ferrari-crash-alongside-college-roommate-Canadian-boxer-driving-car-recklessly-drove-high-speed.html

[GummyBearz]

6. What a post... its like a pre acceptance speech for a darwin award

It is horrible he had to take others down with him... RIP to them all

[Cavallo]

9. Oh, okay. I thought you meant my post and I should remove it.

I'm sorry she died.

I deleted the picture of the car.

There is a picture of the after at the link.

[jtuck004]

11. It was willing company...

"Dubai’s chief traffic prosecutor Salah Bu Farousha said that tests showed all four had been drinking, and The National UAE reports that police obtained CCTV footage from the hotel all four were staying at showing them getting into the two-seater car and driving off.
Witnesses at the crash scene said the car was driving no slower than 90mph. Police are still waiting to confirm the actual speed.


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[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. They put four people in that car? And it was a two-seater?

Even were we to stipulate that the driver was not impaired by alcohol or another substance, his ability to operate the car with the passenger compartment so jammed would be compromised, I'd imagine.

An investigation will reveal details at some future date.

[jtuck004]

15. Young, too much money, too little sense. Most of us aren't afflicted with all of that together.

Most outlive it when they are. but sometimes they hit that perfect storm. What a waste.

I wonder if it was his first time with such a performance machine. Not the time to have others draped around your neck, and then, likely, showing off.

Rest in Peace.

[SoapBox]

5. Oh man...

I really don't have words.

[GGJohn]

7. Tragic.

RIP Victoria and condolences to her family and friends and to those other families of the other victims.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

8. Estimated 90 mph in a 25 zone. Not blaming Victoria, but ...

... one of the four is to blame.

Spring break, supposed to be a happy vacation.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. I'm guessing the passengers wouldn't have chosen to do something like that.

Blame goes to the nut behind the wheel.

There's nothing left of that car. It's a shredded hull. And not even a complete hull at that.

[hamsterjill]

14. Just a very sad thing.

Her poor family and friends.

[GOLGO 13]

16. Dubai?

What is so special about going to Dubai? Seems like a strange place to go "party"? Or am I missing something here?

[Enrique]

19. it's like Las Vegas

i personally have about a million places on my list before I go to either one of those.

[Mugu]

17. RIP

[liberalfromaustin21]

18. So tragic

May she rest in peace. Poor girl.