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5 people dead after fatal crashes in Pembroke, Sturbridge this weekend NEWS CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY Vehicle involved in double fatal crash, Pembroke, MA (04-17-21) Credit:David Curran By  ERIN TIERNAN  | Boston Herald PUBLISHED:  April 18, 2021 at 7:47 p.m.  | UPDATED:  April 18, 2021 at 7:47 p.m. Five people are dead after a pair of fatal crashes in Pembroke and Sturbridge on Friday and Saturday during a deadly weekend on Massachusetts roads, State Police confirmed. Three people died after a wrong-way driver on Route 84 in Sturbridge collided head-on with another car near exit 6B just after 6 p.m. on Saturday, police said. “The facts and circumstances surrounding the crash remain under investigation,” State Police spokesman David Procopio said in a statement. Police identified the wrong-way driver as 40-year-old Deyja Jackson of Worcester. In the second car was 83-year-old Irene Karam of Manchester, N.H. and 62-year-old Patricia Knauer of Deland, Fla. RELATED...