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.
A Reddit user reports on an incident that began on Morrissey Boulevard around 6:40 p.m. and ended on Neponset Avenue with an obese white guy in glasses first throwing a water bottle at his car, then smashing his windshield and mirror with his fists and threatening to shoot him:
Brigitta watched this car go up in flames around 5:10 p.m. on I-93 south by Commerce Way in Wilmington.
Tim photographed the remains of a hit-and-run crash on Kneeland Street in Chinatown tonight:
The driver of a car that hit barriers and the tunnel wall at the Government Center onramp died in the 3:30 a.m. crash, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports. She was 33 and a Dorchester resident.
Preliminary evidence suggests the vehicle struck a concrete attenuator that splits the lane, then collided with the tunnel wall. Multiple civilian motorists stopped at the scene in an attempt to render assistance. The operator, however, was killed in the crash. Her passengers, all adults from Boston, were transported to area hospitals with injuries seemed not life-threatening.
The state begins Longfellow Bridge detours this weekend as it begins to rip the bridge apart and put it back together better than ever.
Starting Saturday, only people driving from Cambridge to Boston will be allowed on the bridge. The Cambridge bound will instead be diverted via Storrow Drive up to Charles River Dam Road and then across that thoughtfully already re-built span into Cambridge.
Mike Mac noticed the lights at Newbury and Berkeley were both red and green this afternoon.
State Police report that giant American flag that had been flying from the Zakim supports fell this morning, wrapping up a southbound car in its red, white and blueness, but causing no injuries or other crashes.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today a man arrested by a Smith College police officer will have to stand trial for operating under the influence even though his alleged infraction happened on a street not owned by the college.
The state's highest court noted that state law gives campus police officers the right to patrol and make arrests on land which their college makes "use." The court said this applied to the Northampton road on which the Smith officer first noticed Steven Smeaton allegedly driving erratically because it is the only way to access a Smith parking garage and other college buildings and facilities.
In reply to a Citizens Connect complaint about spots along N Street held for people with disabilities that never seem to get used at night, the city replies:
The mayor's commissioner for persons with disabilities investigated a number of spaces on this street and removed some. for further questions or specific addresses where the commission should investigate a space, contact our office at (617) 635-3682.
WBUR interviews BRA Director Peter Meade, whose thoughts on encouraging public transit and young residents who aren't so tied to cars come a bit too late for the guy who proposed an Allston apartment building with almost no parking, only to get shot down by the city when nearby residents protested.
Today's the last day for filing comments on the state's proposed two-year redo of the Cambridge Street overpass and the Franklin Street pedestrian bridge. Some people aren't all that happy with the current proposal, and think the state could do better to make it safer for pedestrians to get across the turnpike and train tracks. They even have a petition to attach your name to.
An irate citizen complains about this new bike rack on Worcester Square in the South End:
Paris of the '90s? More like the Orlando of the '10s.
Union Square Main Streets posted this video of a truck-eating sinkhole that opened up this morning next to the Dunkin' Donuts.
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