Deadly accident in Scituate due to bad choice, fam...

By Jennifer Mann The Patriot Ledger SCITUATE -- Family and friends say Ryan Fay was a good guy who made a bad choice. The 22-year-old died late Tuesday after crashing at a high speed into two trees on the Driftway in Scituate. Police are investigating whether Fay, of Cairo Circle, was racing with his two best friends. Fay's parents hope others will learn from what they called a tragic mistake. "If Ryan's loss and our loss can help someone, that's important," said his father, Jerry Fay. His mother, Becky Fay, said thankfully nobody else was hurt. "Ryan couldn't have lived with that, if he had hurt someone else," she said. Police Lt. Michael Stewart said speed was a factor in the crash and alcohol may also have been involved. He said Fay lost control of the pickup truck he was driving after passing two of his friends' cars near a curve in the two-lane road. "We're interested in seeing whether there were witnesses to the fact that these cars were flying down Driftway, fooling around," Stewart said. The group had been at T.K. O'Malley's Harborfront Sports Cafe in Scituate Harbor before the accident, Fay's family said. A general manager at the pub, who declined to give his name, would not say whether Fay and the others had been served alcohol. The Plymouth County District Attorney's office and a state police accident reconstruction team are also investigating. Stewart said it appears one of the other cars, driven by 23-year-old Schuyler Laney of 104 Satuit Trail in Scituate, had passed Fay's truck. Fay then crossed into the oncoming lane to pass Laney's vehicle and a third vehicle. "It appears the victim had made an attempt to pass those two vehicles between Widow's Walk (golf course) and the town dump at a high rate of speed," Stewart said. "As he came upon Ladds Way, it appears he encountered a vehicle traveling east on Driftway. That vehicle had to make an evasive move (and skidded onto the sidewalk.)" Fay pulled back into the westbound lane and s...