Central Falls is devoting its extra patrols to Amber Pelletier, who was a passenger in an impaired-driving crash on May 5th, 2019, in Boston. Amber, a 2016 graduate of La Salle Academy who had just finished her junior year at St. Leo University in Florida, died in the wreckage after the speeding vehicle she was in probably struck parked cars before it hit a cement planter in the median and flipped.
Amber’s mother, Rebecca Tinkham, said she appreciates that her daughter is being remembered but wants people to realize that “One person made a bad decision and as a result I have to grieve the rest of my life.”