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Pedestrian may have been running toward bus that hit him
By adamg on Fri, 12/11/2009 - 1:37pm
An MBTA bus was traveling at a low rate of speed down Huntington Avenue shortly after midnight. when it hit a man now in the ICU, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office says.
State Police homicide investigators have joined MBTA Transit Police in trying to figure out what happened on Huntington Avenue near the Prudential Center because there is a possibility the victim, identified only as a 54-year-old man, could die, the DA's office say.
According to a statement:
Preliminary findings suggest that the bus was travelling at a low rate of speed at the time of the collision. Civilian witnesses told investigators that the victim was seen running toward the bus as the bus was turning onto Ring Road. The operator of the bus told investigators that he felt an impact and immediately stopped the bus.
The bus driver, 50, will undergo routine drug and alcohol testing, although investigators did not find any preliminary evidence he was impaired, according to the DA's office.
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Witness says it was more shuffling than running
Finn says he happened to be down the street when the man was hit:
At 2 am, he wasn't running to catch the bus
unless he was totally confused about what time it was (possible if drunk). No MBTA buses are still in service picking up passengers at that hour.
That's my error, Ron --
That's my error, Ron -- collision was shortly after midnight, not 2. Adam should have a fix in the works any minute now.
Traveling at a "low rate of speed?"
Maybe they mean "traveling at a low speed." An object's speed is its rate of change of position. Therefore its "rate of speed" is its rate of change of speed, i.e. its acceleration. A bus moving at a constant 80mph has a "low rate of speed" because it is not accelerating.
For some reason this clumsy usage is almost unique to law enforcement.
Yea because no one knew what
Yea because no one knew what they meant when they said 'low rate of speed'.....
Need. More. Coffee.
You're right of course, but now you've got my brain picturing a graph of the bus's position, speed and acceleration. And it's way too early in the morning to be thinking about derivatives. And what the hell were YOU doing posting about calculus at 3:59am?
Sleep disorder
I have a circadian rhythm disorder, so I'm frequently wide awake in the middle of the night :-)
if they meant low rate of
if they meant low rate of change of speed, that's what they would have said, [noun] of something = something.
speed is a rate, therefore, "rate of speed" = speed.
No.
Speed is the rate of motion. Rate of speed would be ds/dt, which is the first derivative of how fast the vehicle is moving, i.e. acceleration. Speed is how fast the vehicle is changing position. The vehicle was traveling at a high rate of motion.