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Winthrop woman charged with repeatedly crashing her car in Arlington, causing multiple injuries
By adamg on Sun, 09/27/2015 - 5:29pm
The final crash. Photo by Markk02474.
A Winthrop woman was drunk Saturday evening when she smashed into three cars, injuring seven people, one critically, Arlington Police report.
Police say Lillian Claudio, 35, had four people - two of them children - in her Kia when she smashed head on into a parked Ford Explorer so hard the car spun 360 degrees and the driver, a man from Somerville, was ejected. He was taken to Mass. General with life-threatening injuries.
Claudio drove away and wound up on Broadway, where she blew through a stop sign at Wyman Street:
The car proceeded to drive into the front, driver's side of a man's 2010 Nissan Murano before continuing on Wyman Street. The man and his and passenger were treated on scene for injuries, but did not go to the hospital.
Claudio just kept on going - until she plowed head on into a parked, unoccupied Ford F350 at Wyman and Warren, where police say they finally caught up with her.
All of Claudio's passengers required trips to the hospital, as did Claudio herself, police say, adding neither of the children, both under 12, were in "age inappropriate" car seats.
She was charged with OUI causing serious injury, OUI child endangerment, leaving the scene of an accident causing personal injury, leaving the scene of an accident causing property damage, driving with children, 6 12, not wearing seat belts and negligent operation. She is scheduled for arraignment in Cambridge District Court on Monday.
Innocent, etc.
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She'll walk out of the court
She'll walk out of the court and right into another car.
Pole position
in the Seaport Indy Car race perhaps?
I walked down to the crime scene last nite
The new term is "traffic violence". The guy who was worst injured had just gotten back in his vehicle from a convenience store on the corner. He was sitting in his SUV and had not yet put on his seat belt when Claudio hit his vehicle. I talked with witnesses who saw people getting taken away and he looked bad. They also reported that Claudio had a grandmother(?) in the car with her and the children. In the block from her first hit and run to where she ended up she sideswiped a number of parked cars along the way.
BTW, the sequence of crashes as reported seems backwards. They actually seem to have started on Broadway near Wyman street (leaving debris there). She drove down Wyman towards Warren, where she crashed into the Explorer and then the F-350, just before Warren Street.
A google search of Lillian Claudio reveals a previous arrest:
http://www.itemlive.com/news/five-arrested-following-i-hop-brawl/article...
(Note in the photo, the F-350 is parked facing the "wrong way" on the left side of the road. The red SUV behind was the one spun around with the severely injured man. If the F-350 had been parked correctly, the alleged drunk driver and elderly passenger could have had worse injuries from going under the truck bed)
Wow, MarkK
I'm surprised you didn't find a way to blame this on bike lanes.
Low income housing this time
where friends or family live probably drew her to Arlington from her home in Winthrop. So, not bike lanes unless she ended up on the narrow side street to avoid the bike lane construction project on Mass Ave.
Right
Because nobody in Arlington ever drives drunk unless there is low-income housing involved. Not the wrong-way driver on Grove with seven OUIs, not the Scutra Crasher who injured people. Nope.
http://www.universalhub.com/search?q_as=arlington%20drunk%20driving
Nope. Not the last bunch reported here - the people who live in regular houses were just confused by the city rationalizing traffic on Summer St. by moving some traffic islands.
"Probably"?
"Probably"? Do you have any actual evidence that this is the case?
Wait for the araignment
Perhaps a baby daddy lives in or around Arlington and they were here for a visit so she wouldn't get blamed for violating the custody agreement. "Sorry judge, I was drunk again, so couldn't make the appointment with the father." Well, DCF may get two more kids and the father(s) will then get to see their kids.
"Perhaps"?
So you *are* just pulling stuff out of your ass. No surprise there.
Ask
And ye shall receive.
Markkkk started out just fine. Then Ari had to beg for it.
Yes, I aim to please
I figured I'd throw in low income housing because in customer service being the best is about going above and beyond what is asked or expected.
I was was clearly delusional
thinking a man might have child custody rights or equal access to public housing.
Claudio may have been returning the kids to her ex-wife or ex-partner who lives in public housing with custodial rights. That is more likely the case. She could well be a gold star lesbian and they are not even her kids.
Just shut up
You're a pig in so many ways, and not even good for bacon. Just shut up and stop reminding us what a waste of skin you are.
Never heard of
an "age-inappropriate" car seat before.
That is odd
Car seats should be selected according to weight and height, not age.
I think the real problem here was that they were not wearing seatbelts and the six year old wasn't in a proper seat.
Then again, by the current recommendations, my husband would have been required to ride in a booster seat until he was 15, since he was under 100 pounds.
This reminds me of a time I
This reminds me of a time I was watching TV with an ex-girlfriend. A commercial popped up saying anyone under 4' 9" should use a child seat. She was 4' 11". She was not amused.
No.
Age *is* a factor as well, because of bone maturity and behavioral factors. A child should be harnessed until about 4, even if large enough to ride in a booster, because the booster doesn't protect them if they're bending over, falling asleep, or reaching over to smack their brother, and children don't typically have the maturity to stay properly seated at all times if they're 2 or 3 and just happen to be large. Some children with disabilities or who are just squirrelly kids need to be harnessed until 6 or 7. The Diono Radian goes up to 80 lbs and 57" inches harnessed. There are other seats on the market as well that approach these sorts of limits. Special needs seats ordered from medical companies go even higher.
Similarly, the recommendations are 4'7"-4'9" to be out of a booster, unless one first reaches the age of 12, in which case the iliac crest is hardened and you no longer need the booster to absorb some of the impact in order to prevent prepubescent hips and spine from taking the impact. A teen or adult who is of small stature does not need to be in a booster.
Laws include a combination of height, weight, and age, and also require that seats are used properly and according to manufacturer's instructions. If I checked out a family's car seat usage and they had an 18-month-old in a booster seat, and the child did happen to be within the height and weight limits of the seat, I would indeed refer to that as age-inappropriate seat use. An 18-month-old should always be in a harnessed seat, preferably rear-facing, though front-facing is legal in many states and permitted by many seat manufacturers. The driver could be cited for improper use, since a booster seat manual states that the child needs to be seated at all times with good posture and shoulder belt properly positioned, and a toddler who happens to be large just is not going to be properly using this seat. Likewise, a child who is too tall or heavy for a particular seat would also be an example of age-inappropriate use.
-CPST
In the ideal world they do
In the real world you get lawmakers on crusade deciding that 14 year olds can't be left at home alone after school and high school wrestlers in the 98 lb category have to be in booster seats.
Because lawmakers don't always bother to read all those distinctions. They like simple and stupid.
Update: "Returning from apple picking"
...because there are so many orchards in Arlington...
Bail raised to $100,000. DCF now involved. Injured man in induced coma, status upgraded from critical to serious.
http://www.myfoxboston.com/story/30134133/woman-accused-of-driving-drunk...
Claims she wasn't drinking. BAC was .10 five hours after the crash
http://www.whdh.com/story/30134321/winthrop-mother-accused-of-drunk-driv...
Please explain
Where is the part about public housing?
Route 2 to Route 60 or Route 16
That would be my choice of route between, say, Harvard, MA and Winthrop. Of course, it would be easy to lose your way in Arlington Center if you had been hitting the hard cider, well, hard.
For a guy who is so into cars, you don't seem to know your roads very well.
I'm not into watching planes so don't know Winthrop
or how I would go there. Still, I'd be happy if she crashed a few blocks from your house instead of mine.
Bike lanes come into play now - likely avoiding the destruction on Mass Ave to make bike lanes on her way to Rt. 16. So, it was that and not public housing now that we learn she had so many people stuffed into the car.
Well, that explains a lot
You complain about being stuck in traffic because you never learned to read a farking map!
Your problem isn't bike lanes or lack of lane miles that contribute nothing to overall capacity. Your problem is that you don't know your territory, or even your local territory well enough to navigate properly. I'm always puzzled about your complaints - I do drive, and often drive the same areas that you do, and yet I don't seem to have the same issues because I know and avoid the trouble spots when planning my routes. You seem to expect to go the speed limit on the mainline traffic sewers at all times rather than go lower speeds on emptier streets.
Much easier to find your way around the city and know the trouble spots and where the least fraught parking is if you bother to explore a bit.
Amazing
I can't believe what a precious little snowflake you are. If someone crashing a car a few blocks from your house is such a big deal freakout factor for you, then you're living an exceptionally privileged and sheltered life, and you really need to shut up when the grownups are talking.
Went apple picking in Northboro!
Claudio Claimed GPS sent her to Arlington. Neither knows their way around!
"A 5-year-old “doubled buckled” in the car suffered a broken clavicle bone and abdomen trauma..."
http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/columnists/jessica_heslam/2015/...
Them apples
See, that's why you never eat the apples that fell on the ground. Some of them ferment, and then you blow a .1 without ever drinking that beer in your cupholder.
No, you don't know your way around
Seriously. Rt. 290N to 495N to 2 East to 60 East to Warren/Broadway to 16 East is the very obvious way to work that. Pretty much the most direct route to Winthrop, considering the road closures in Medford.
Which would put her into Arlington.
She either made a wrong turn at St. Agony or was directed down Warren to cut from 60 to 16 at Broadway.
You really are navigationally challenged, aren't you?
The pike is far fewer miles and minutes
Here is how Google would route you: https://goo.gl/63XeLo
when typing "directions from Northborough to Winthrop". Sorry, its not like bicycling and you would need to pay to use the roads, however.
The link displays a handy map so you can see how out of the way Arlington is.
But, hey, you can submit a bug report to Google telling them they are wrong and you are right.
Nope
Not the best way - traffic can be very bad on that route. I used to drive out that way daily when I lived out there and worked at Arthur D. Little. Still have friends out that way - pike into Boston would be a difficult way to get there.
You only know a handful of roads, don't you?
Sad.
What's your point?
The only thing of relevance is she needs to be taught that when you crash into a car while following your GPS directions, you don't keep following the GPS until you hit 2 more.
Where she came from and where she was going is immaterial to anyone but you because you think this news is about you (and that feeds into everyone else making it about you in the comments).
The GPS would have been drunk
to put her in Arlington along with Swirly worried about traffic on the Pike on a Saturday and doing all her geometry in curved space ( eg try drawing a line on a map from Northborough to Winthrop - doesn't go near Arlington at all).
The driver's confusion resulting in her being in Arlington shows how bad a state of mind she was in to go along with the crashes and attempted getaways.