{"id":912513,"date":"2026-11-10T15:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912513\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T15:32:15","slug":"1-dead-1-missing-after-vehicle-crashes-into-river-in-taunton-massachusetts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/912513\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 missing after vehicle crashes into river in Taunton, Massachusetts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1794324735_809_e52836a8-4d06-4bc7-982a-40ad4944b1a4_1690409286.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jamy Pombo Sesselman\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Senior Digital Editor\/Producer, WCVB.com<\/p>\n<p>TAUNTON, Mass. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">One person died and another person remains missing after a vehicle crashed into a river in Taunton, Massachusetts, on Monday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Police received a 911 call at 10:15 p.m. reporting that a vehicle was operating at a high rate of speed in the area of North Walker and Winthrop Street in Taunton. The vehicle struck a utility pole and guardrail,  left the roadway and entered the Threemile River at 396 Winthrop St.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Police responded to the scene along with the Southeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council Dive Team and State Police detectives assigned to the Bristol County District Attorney&#8217;s Office. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">After a water search, investigators found the vehicle, a white Nissan Maxima, in the river with one person inside.  The occupant, later identified as Alec Ardita, 24, of Taunton, was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">There was a continued search of the waters in the area of the crash as the investigation revealed a second occupant was likely in the vehicle at the time of the crash. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Due to worsening water conditions overnight, dive teams suspended search efforts, which are scheduled to resume Tuesday.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senior Digital Editor\/Producer, WCVB.com TAUNTON, Mass. \u2014 One person died and another person remains missing after a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":912514,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[381316,14854,4,450,381317,381325,451,2001,24016,3,381324,381318,101892,11901,21980,381319,381320,2095,381321,170506,381322,452,453,152702,10129,121658,317995,28123,381323],"class_list":["post-912513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-alec-ardita","tag-area","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-bristol-county-district-attorneys-office","tag-guardrail","tag-headlines","tag-massachusetts","tag-monday-night","tag-news","tag-north-walker","tag-north-walker-street","tag-occupant","tag-person","tag-river","tag-semlec-dive-team","tag-southeastern-massachusetts-law-enforcement-council","tag-speed","tag-state-police-detectives","tag-taunton","tag-threemile-river","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-utility-pole","tag-vehicle","tag-vehicle-crash","tag-water-search","tag-wcvb","tag-winthrop-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=912513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/912513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=912513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=912513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=912513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}