Scott Wholley captured a self-immolating car around 9:45 a.m. on that stretch of I-93 where nothing good seems to happen, in this case, southbound just before the Zakim.
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Tinea reports the bicyclist seemed OK as she got in an ambulance after the collision not long after 1:30 a.m. at Harvard and Verndale streets.
The Globe reports Saunders, whose family owns the Park Plaza Hotel, had one of her minions wrangle a valet space for one in front of her office so that she wouldn't have to mix with the hoi polloi when she got out of her Cadillac for work.
We can't be the only people who used to think Rte. 9 ended (or began) somewhere in the area of the Riverway overpass just past Brookline Village. Now, thanks to the industrious beavers at MassDOT, we know it continues down Huntington Avenue to at least Mission Hill (remember last year when a contractor blocked the sidewalk on Tremont Street by putting up Rte. 9 signs?). And now, thanks to a concerned citizen, we know Rte. 9 extends even further into Boston, onto at least Stuart Street (and from there, hmm, maybe it goes through one of the tunnels into East Boston and then all the way up to Canada!):
One of the new state road signs has been knocked down by a car and is near Eastern Bank at Dartmouth and Stuart (on elevated sidewalk). By the way, why are all these signs being installed?
Around 4:30 a.m., That Red Hair Girl tweeted:
Was anyone else in Allston just violently awoken by what sounded like the scariest crash of all time on Comm Ave. near Griggs?
Mozendo reports:
Saw a car crash moments ago in Allston. Not sure if the guy was speeding or his brake wouldn't work. I saw the whole thing. I'm surprised he didn't get hurt. He was speeding down Allston (from BC) and swerved front of the Long Ave T stop where he crashed.
Stanly Staco reports that around 2:45 a.m., somebody drove into Sal's Pizza, 150 Tremont St. Up until that point, Sal's did walk-in service only. The driver, he says, was uninjured.
Bike Mike adds:
So I watched a black Audi take out a Hubway station on Tremont by the Common and give Sal's Pizza a drive through window
Turns out Bey was in town for her boy Jay Z's duet with that other guy at Fenway tonight. Stanley Staco reports she got as snagged by post-concert traffic as everybody else in greater Kenmore:
FENWAY: Mult Boston Police CycleDiv units Setting up to move Jay Z + Beyonce outa Fenway Area, Lansdowne St now Gridlocked - Avoid Area.
FENWAY: Jay Z + Beyonce (code name PACKAGE) now being Rolled Out Lansdowne St under Boston Police Escort - Active Area
It's bad enough when stores put Halloween candy out in July. Do we really need to start worrying about Allston Christmas in August? Too damn early, as Nikki illustrates with this photo of a rental truck whose driver was forced to back up around 12:45 p.m. on Storrow Drive today, when he realized he was never going to fit into that teeny little tunnel.
Update, 4:15 p.m.: As crews began to try to get the cab back behind the guard rail, the MBTA shut Orange Line service, just in case, because the tracks run right under the crash site.
A crash involving a big truck and a small truck on I-93 north in Charlestown around 2:10 p.m. sent the larger vehicle dangling over the guardrail and the driver of the smaller truck to the hospital.
The larger truck, a Michelob tractor-trailer, ended up with its cab dangling off I-93 over the Leverett Connector, in the same general area as the voodoo Globe-truck incident a few days ago.
State Police shut the road in both directions as firefighters tried to deal with a detached fuel tank that was leaking across the road. Debris showered the connector ramp below.
A man on a dirt bike hit a car on Washington Street at Westminster Avenue around 10:45 p.m. He was taken to the hospital in such bad shape that homicide detectives were called in to investigate the crash.
A Boston Municipal Court judge today set bail at $10,000 for Vivencia Bellegarde, charged with OUI and ramming into a Boston Globe delivery truck that plunged 40 feet off I-93 onto a Leverett Circle exit ramp, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office report.
The Globe reports the truck's driver is expected to survive his injuries from the 3:13 a.m. ramming.
Seems somebody didn't know how to stop at the end of Cummins Highway in Roslindale Square early this morning and plowed right into the entrance of Adams Park. A couple of concerned citizens filed complaints about the poor cleanup by the DPW at what is a main entrance to the morning's farmers' market, which, as we know, is one of the biggest in the city.
Farmer's market is happening with lots of people and it seems a bit dangerous.
Boston Police report they are investigating a crash around 6:10 p.m. at Harvard and Warner streets in Dorchester that sent two officers and a third person to the hospital and a crash around 7:20 p.m.
Ris2000 reports this morning on some exposed rebar on the ol' overpass:
Just came down Morton St. by cemetery and saw 3 cars with flats from the road conditions. Casey overpass plus Morton not fun drive!
Matt Flight captured an SUV getting extra crispy on Mass. Ave. in Porter Square around 6 p.m.