The Massachusetts Vision Zero Coalition has posted answers to questions about road safety - for both at-large candidates and candidates in specific districts in the Sept. 24 preliminaries.
Driving
By adamg - 8/18/19 - 12:49 pm
NBC Boston reports that all six people in a car - including a young child - were injured in a crash with another car at Columbia Road and Hamilton Street around 11:30 p.m. on Saturday.
By adamg - 8/17/19 - 12:20 pm
A verb, meaning: To ram your truck into a bridge or overpass because you thought the "CARS ONLY" signs at the onramps were just suggestions. Can be done on the river roads - Storrow Drive, Soldiers Field Drive and Memorial Drive - but also at select bridges elsewhere, such as the East Street Bridge that carries the Franklin Line near Endicott station in Dedham.
By adamg - 8/16/19 - 8:42 pm
Some time before 8:25 p.m. or so, when Dev arrived at the scene, the driver of a box truck learned his truck was no match for the Grand Junction train bridge just before the BU Bridge, where Soldiers Field Road inbound becomes Storrow Drive. The judges rate this 9/10, deducting a point because the truck did not disgorge its contents all over the road.
By adamg - 8/16/19 - 1:30 pm
State Police report arresting a Chelsea man for some major closing-time street carnage at Bennington and Porter streets this morning that they say left an innocent pedestrian rushed to the hospital, a tree knocked down and a utility box, light pole, bench and his own car and his alleged opponent's car heavily damaged. Read more.
By adamg - 8/15/19 - 9:06 pm
Smoke rising from flaming car. Photo by Michael Schneider.
Boston and Chelsea firefighters responded to the Boston-bound side of the Tobin Bridge shortly after 9 p.m. after a car burst into flames. Read more.
By adamg - 8/14/19 - 1:15 pm
Segun Idowu reports he happened upon this flipped car around noon and that he and some other folks managed to get the driver out and she just had some minor scratches.
By adamg - 8/12/19 - 10:10 pm
Napoleon Blownaparte reports the Morrissey Boulevard drawbridge is stuck in the upright position once more and that traffic is now being diverted around it. No telling what happens if it stays that way for more than four hours.
By adamg - 8/7/19 - 3:46 pm
At 3:25 p.m., State Police reported that Soldiers Field Road in Allston was shut inbound at North Harvard thanks to another box truck driver thinking he could squeeze under a bridge, only it turns out he couldn't.
By adamg - 8/5/19 - 8:50 pm
Don Reisner spotted this stuck truck at the East Street bridge in Dedham late this afternoon (if you thought they'd fixed the bridge, you're thinking of the East Street bridge next door in Westwood).
Earlier:
Dedham train bridge turns into Prime location for a storrowing.
By adamg - 8/5/19 - 3:02 pm
Boston Police report arresting Allen Williams, 65, of Everett, on charges he hit a pedestrian on Alford Street on July 26, then kept on driving. Read more.
By adamg - 8/4/19 - 6:25 pm
Michael Cometa ran across the flaming minivan on the westbound side of the turnpike in Allston shortly before 4 p.m.
By adamg - 7/31/19 - 10:41 am
A man who bought what turned out to be a dud of a Ford F-150 in 2010 does not have to hire an expert to prove the truck was crap from the get-go - all the warranty and repair invoices from dealer service centers are enough to prove that, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled today. Read more.
By adamg - 7/30/19 - 9:47 am
What the State Police called an overheight tractor trailer got up close and personal with the Dartmouth Street footbridge on the inbound side of Storrow Drive right in the middle of rush hour this morning. Everybody had a hearty chuckle, especially the people who got stuck in a backup that extended back to North Harvard Street on Soldiers Field Road.
By adamg - 7/28/19 - 9:06 pm
WHDH reports on the crash this morning on Hyde Park Avenue at Blakemore Street.
By adamg - 7/28/19 - 5:19 pm
A woman got into her car on Dunbar Avenue in Dorchester around 12:55 a.m., promptly ran into two people on a scooter and kept on going up Washington Street towards Codman Square, even as one of the people on the scooter went flying.
That person is now on crutches and will require oral surgery, while the scooter's driver suffered less serious injuries but still had to be taken to the hospital for observation, a family member said.
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