MA Man David Costa Jr ID’d As Victim In Saturday Violent Dartmouth Cross Road Single-Vehicle Crash

DARTMOUTH, MA. (THECOUNT) — David Costa Jr., of Fairhaven, MA, has been identified as the victim in a violent single-vehicle crash in Dartmouth Saturday morning.

Costa, 23, was killed in an early morning single-vehicle crash Saturday in Dartmouth.

According to officials, Costa was operating a vehicle in the 300 block of Cross Road around 2 a.m. Saturday morning, when for unknown reasons, the vehicle crossed centerlines and exited the roadway. The vehicle then made contact with a utility pole and a chain link fence before coming to a rest.

Costa had to be extracted from the vehicle.

He was transported to an area hospital where he was later pronounced dead of multiple blunt force trauma injuries.

The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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Geo quick facts: Fairhaven is a town in Bristol County, Massachusetts, United States. It is located on the South Coast of Massachusetts where the Acushnet River flows into Buzzards Bay, an arm of the Atlantic Ocean. Dartmouth is a coastal town in Bristol County, Massachusetts. Old Dartmouth was the first area of Southeastern Massachusetts to be settled by Europeans. Dartmouth itself is part of New England’s farm coast, which consists of a chain of historic coastal villages, vineyards, and farms – Wikipedia.