My heart weeps to report this extremely tragic situation and I ask for everyone’s prayers over this.
A Brookline New Hampshire volunteer firefighter was dealt a heartbreaking blow when responding to a fatal car crash on Christmas Eve. The mangled body of a dying woman he removed from the crushed SUV in the town of Brookline was his own daughter according to police.
The firefighter didn’t recognize her at the time, police chief Bill Quigley told a local newspaper. “Her father was the one who pulled her out of the car without knowing it was her.” Katie Hamilton died on the scene at the age of 30 after another vehicle struck hers from behind pushing it into the opposing lane of traffic where a third car hit her head on, Quigley said.
The drivers of the other vehicles were not hurt. Police think the driver of the car that rear-ended Hamilton may have been distracted, the chief said. “We are pretty certain that speed and impairment were not a factor so that would rule it down to driver distraction at this point,” Quigley said. Police are still investigating the cause of the accident and no one has been charged at this time.
Hamilton leaves behind not only her father. “I know that she is a young mother,” Quigley said. “It’s a sad, sad day for all of us, not just because it’s Christmas Eve.” In Brookline, most everyone knows the father and the tragedy he has suffered. The town of 4,000 holds Hamilton and her father in high regard. Quigley declined to identify the father.
