According to the Boston Globe, a car crash last Monday on Morrissey Boulevard near the entrance to University of Massachusetts-Boston injured five people. All suffered non-life-threatening injuries, said a police spokesman. Two of the car accident victims were taken to Tufts Medical Center. The other two were taken to Boston…
According to a recent study, hybrid cars are a greater risk to pedestrians than vehicles with internal combustion engines because of their quieter engines. Blind pedestrians are especially at risk, because they rely more heavily on auditory cues. In fact, a blind woman in Kansas City last year had her…
Last Wednesday, a car crash on Interstate 495 southbound in Bolton killed two people and injured three more. All five were riding in the same vehicle when the driver lost control of the vehicle, exited the road to the left, and rolled over before coming to rest against a tree…
Last Friday, an Uxbridge man was seriously injured after driving his car into a tree on Park Street just before 2am. The 20-year-old man suffered severe head trauma, according to the Mendon Police and Fire Chief. The motor vehicle accident victim was taken by LifeFlight to UMass Memorial Medical Center.…
A Boston Fire Department vehicle and a 1998 Audi collided on Monday afternoon, injuring four people. The motor vehicle accident occurred in Jamaica Plain. The driver of the Audi was reportedly driving to his fiancé’s house after hearing it was on fire. He collided with the 2005 Chevrolet Tahoe sport…
Earlier this week, in Westford, Massachusetts, an auto accident occurred at 6:30am after a Honda CRV veered from the southbound side of 495 into the northbound side. The Honda was broadsided by an oncoming 18-wheeler and hit by a mini-van. According to police, a 37-year-old male passenger was killed instantly…
Last Thursday morning, a car crash on the Massachusetts Turnpike sent a 6-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester with serious injuries. The auto accident, which was reported around 10:30am, also caused a temporary closure of several westbound lanes on the Massachusetts Turnpike.…
Last month, a 32-year-old woman from Dedham died of injuries caused when a 71-year-old driver drove over the curb and into a private yard, hitting the woman and her 2-year-old child with her sport utility vehicle. The child was in stable condition, the Dedham car accident victim died that night…
A study released last week by the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) discovered that car drivers who talk or listen to someone on a cell phone while driving increase their risk of auto crashes by 1.3 times. Truck drivers who text message up their risk of a motor vehicle crash…
On Sunday afternoon, a 43-year-old Massachusetts mother and two children, ages 10 and 12, were injured in an car collision on the Route 101 bypass in Milford. Police say the woman was driving a 1998 Volvo station wagon when she skidded into the other lane, colliding with a 2000 Volkswagen.…