The Boston Globe

Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Two Babson College students die in fiery crash in Wellesley
By John R. Ellement and Andrew Ryan, Globe Staff
Two Babson College sophomores driving home from a restaurant were killed in a crash in Wellesley overnight when the car veered off a road near campus, bounced off three trees, and burst into flames, according to police, a school official, and witnesses.
The students were returning from dinner in Natick in a Porsche Cayman on Forest Street at about 11:30 p.m. when they missed a turn, said Chief Terrence M. Cunningham of the Wellesley Police Department. A preliminary investigation found that the car was traveling too fast on a stretch of road a few blocks from the business school where the speed limit is 30 miles per hour.
Owen Dugan, a Wellesley selectman who lives on Forest Street, said he ran outside when he heard the crash.
"There wasn't anything that could be done to save those people," said Dugan, who described 8-foot flames rising above the roof of the car. "It was a complete inferno."
Police identified the driver as Ishfaq Moinudoin, 20, from Dhaka, the capital and largest city in Bangladesh. His passenger was Angad Sawhney, 19, of Mahwah, N.J.
"It's a difficult time," said Dennis Hanno, the Babson dean of undergraduate students. "These students were well known."
Active in the South Asian student association, both students were highly motivated and spent hours in the office of their college adviser "trying to do more, to do better," Hanno said.
Moinudoin and Sawhney had been out to dinner with other students who returned to campus in another car. Investigators have spoken to the students in the other car and it does not appear they were drinking alcohol or drag racing on the way home, Cunningham said.
"They came down the street, and they came upon the crash themselves," Cunningham said of the other car of students.
When Dugan ran outside and saw the fiery wreck, he said three college-age men were yelling hysterically.
"Get them out," Dugan said the men yelled. "Get them out.""It's awful," said John Delegas, 18, a Babson freshman, who immediately thought of the shooting massacre in Virginia. "Especially after last week."
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