One dead, multiple injured in fiery crash on Interstate 495 in Andover 7%

By Bryan Hecht37%

7/16/2026, 12:29:18 PM

BS Summary: This article contains 8 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Appeal to Emotion, and Unattributed Quote, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 40.1% saturation with 63 hits. Analysis detected 192 faulty-reasoning hits from 157 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 22.9% and a BS Rank of 7% (19,804 of 21,166 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 93.60% of the article peer group.

A 25-year-old woman was killed and four others, including multiple children, were injured in a fiery multi-car crash on Interstate 495 north in Andover Wednesday, authorities said. 
At approximately 11:30 p.m., State Police responded to a report of a car on fire off the highway near Route 93. 
The car, a 2013 Chrysler Town and Country, was carrying two adults and three children, police said. 
A 25-year-old woman from Lawrence was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. 
The driver was taken to a Boston hospital with serious injuries. 
The three children were also taken to the hospital; the severity of their injuries was not available. 
Police learned that a 2009 Honda Civic was also involved in the crash. 
The driver didn’t appear to be injured, police said. 
The crash remains under investigation. 
Bryan Hecht can be reached at bryan.hecht@globe.com. 
Follow him on Instagram @bhechtjournalism. 
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157 words analyzed.

Speakers

1speaker13%attributed speech136writer words
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State Police

100%flagged-word coverage
21 attributed words100% of attributed speech62% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Unattributed Quote+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%State Police: 100.0%100.0%Biased Writer Voice-8.8 ptsWriter: 8.8%State Police: 0.0%0.0%Attempt to Sell a Product -8.8 ptsWriter: 8.8%State Police: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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