The Local News (Ipswich/Rowley, Topsfield/Boxford)
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7th April 2025
Ipswich Woman Starts Educational Scholarship with Spinal Cord Injury Group in Boston
IPSWICH — On October 12, 2004, resident Linda Riley and her husband, Steve, were driving back from a visit with friends in Canada when the unthinkable happened. Roughly two hours into their trip home, at around 9:30 a.m., their car went off the road, rolling down an 18-inch drop onto a pile of concrete rubble. Ten days later, Riley woke up from a coma. She was paralyzed from the breastbone down, and her sister told her that Steve had died almost immediately after the crash. He was 50 years old.“...
