Driver charged nearly one year after deadly Milton crash
BOSTON – Manuel Afonseca of Boston was arraigned on Thursday, charged in a March 2022 Milton crash that killed one man and seriously injured a child.
Afonseca, 41, was driving a white sedan on Blue Hill Ave. when he crashed into a pickup truck being driven by 56-year-old Michael McGrath of Milton.
McGrath was killed in the crash while his son was hospitalized and had to undergo "major surgery."
Afonseca, who is now paralyzed on his left side, was wheeled into court on a stretcher. He also lost his left leg in the crash.
Prosecutors said he was driving 107 miles per hour near the Curry College campus when he hit the pickup truck head-on.
The charges he is facing include vehicular homicide.
