MELROSE — Chief Michael L. Lyle reports that the Melrose Police Department responded to a crash at a cemetery on Saturday afternoon. 

On Saturday, April 16, at approximately 2:30 p.m., Melrose Police were dispatched to Wyoming Cemetery, 205 Sylvan St., for a report of a motor vehicle crash. 

Upon arrival, police learned that the vehicle – an older model Range Rover – crashed into headstones at the cemetery. The driver, a 53-year-old Melrose woman with her learner’s permit, was practicing driving at the time of the crash, accompanied by a relative who is a licensed operator.

The two occupants of the vehicle were uninjured.

A total of eight headstones were knocked over. Several sustained damage, but all were successfully uprighted by members of the Department of Public Works, who responded to the scene.

A preliminary investigation indicates that the woman lost control of the vehicle, causing it to strike the headstones. 

The crash remains under investigation by the Melrose Police Department.

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