A Dighton teen who was killed earlier this month when the pickup truck she was driving crashed into the front of a Taunton home is being remembered for her “nurturing heart.”

Savannah Salemme, 18, died after the Toyota Tacoma she was driving hit the front porch of a home at 168 Tremont St. on Sept. 19 around 10:15 p.m., the Bristol County District Attorney’s Office said previously. The truck rolled into parked cars in the driveway of the home after impact and became fully engulfed in flames. She was declared dead at the scene.

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Savannah Ryan Salemme, was born in Weymouth on May 22, 2007, to Arianna and Matthew Salemme, according to her obituary . She was raised in Randolph and Stoughton before her family’s m

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