District C-6 reports at least four Acura MDXs were broken into in South Boston on May 6 and 7 and their airbags removed. A fifth MDX had its airbag removed on May 1. A sixth Acura also had its airbag stolen on May 6, but police did not specify if it was an MDX.
The break-ins and thefts are scattered across the neighborhood west of L Street.
The Jamaica Plain Gazette has the latest on the plans for a post-overpass world, including the reconstruction of the rotary by Franklin Park into a standard intersection, with a name change from Shea Circle to Shea Square.
Boston Police report a Mascot Street youngster started up his mother's car and put it in revers this morning - causing it to roll across the street and slam into a neighbor's house:
She was, however, still breathing when State Police pulled her out of the Mystic by the Little Mystic on the Charlestown side shortly before 6 p.m.
UPDATE: State Police report the woman died about an hour later at Mass. General. They identified her only as a 36-year-old Rhode Island resident who got out of her car on the upper level.
A man already facing charges of leading police from four towns on a high-speed chase down Rte. 9 was arrested today on charges he started up a car on the floor of a car dealership and smashed it into another car.
Ender Durgut, 39, was charged with willful and malicious destruction of property, larceny of a motor vehicle and assault by means of a dangerous weapon (a motor vehicle) following the 10:20 a.m. incident at Herb Chambers Toyota, 32 Brighton Ave., police report. Police and the Suffolk County District Attorney's office say Durgut walked into the showroom and said he wanted to buy a Venza to replace the one he crashed in March, got into one, started it up, then drove it into a Prius.
Officers noted that both cars sustained what appeared to be minor damage. After an employee reached into the car and turned the off engine, the suspect exited the car and walked out of the dealership.
Police say they found Durgut around the corner on Comm. Ave.
Scott Eisen photographed the aftermath.
Stop feeding them after midnight, dammit!
Roving UHub photographer Swirlygrrl captured the stop (and go) light at the end of an O'Neil Tunnel ramp this morning.
City Councilor Mike Ross says riders on the E line between Brigham Circle and Heath Street shouldn't have to worry about getting flattened by crazed Massholes who ignore the "STOP" painted on the sides of open trolley doors.
Ross, who lives on Mission Hill, is seeking legislation to let the T install cameras on trolleys that share the road with motorists in that stretch to catch and ticket drivers ignoring stopped trolleys.
Trial began today for Carmen Andino, 40, and her daughter Shey Carrasquillo, 19, on charges they stabbed a neighbor on McGreevey Way on Jan. 11, 2010 in a dispute over, among other things, the table they allegedly used to save a parking space after a snowstorm, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Innocent, etc.
The Herald manaages to find some gas-guzzler drivers who are shocked, shocked, at a new parking lot across from the Government Center garage that would charge them more.
GMC Sierra driver John Roberts said Dinosaur’s pricing plan "is not fair. It’s like they’re trying to make money off of people who are not environmentally conscious."
Brooklinian John Carroll is aghast his town spent $1 million on multi-car parking meters that it's about to rip out because locals don't like walking to the meters to get a ticket and then walking back to their cars to put the tickets on their windows:
Seriously? This is lamer than Chester on Gunsmoke.
A tractor trailer carrying a full load of clay rolled over around 5:30 a.m. on the lower Deck just before the Zakim Bridge, spilling its load, fuel and oil and shutting the road, State Police report. The driver was taken to Mass. General with minor injuries.
Takes a look at the new bridge installed over the weekend across the Fairmount Line, instead of piecemeal over the eons, like, oh, that bridge on American Legion Highway over Morton Street.
State Police tweet a crash on 128 south in Burlington around 4:20 p.m. ended with a tractor-trailer in the woods, a motorcycle down and two rolled over cars, but no serious injuries. One lane was open to traffic. State Police say the driver of a dark-colored pickup that fled the scene may be responsible.
State Police report a car smashed into a bridge abutment on Morrissey Boulevard northbound near Freeport Street early this morning and that three people are dead.
The Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports two men, 19 and 20, were pronounced dead at the scene. The third victim, a 19-year-old woman, was extricated from the remains of the car with the Jaws of Life, but was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Flaming car.
Dave Atkins was at the Burger King on Washington Street in Roslindale around 6:30 this evening when a car outside started burning. Firefighters arrived a couple of moments after he took this photo to extinguish the flames.
Auto-Titanic.
Gretchen van Ness forwards this photo of an homage to 1912 serenely sailing through Hyde Square in Jamaica Plain.
Moments later, of course, it hit some ice and disappeared into a storm drain.
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