Southeast Expressway

Snow catches Boston by surprise

adamg — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:38:49 +0000

Crash at Everett and Clevemont in Brighton. Photo by bbarbaruolo.

Update, 11 p.m.: Expressway in Dorchester at a complete standstill in both directions; six cars collided on the Zakim.

Drivers unaccustomed to powder-covered roads, coupled with a lack of salt, means spinouts and crashes are beginning to pile up. A Hummer ran up into a house on Lake Street in Brighton, but did no major damage to either house or people. Police shut Everett Street in Brighton after cars started playing pinball. Boston DPW salt trucks began blasting out of their yards to treat roads around 10:45 p.m.

Ed. note: I held off on raising the French Toast Alert based on a forecast that called for everything to melt by morning as temperatures rose into the 40s. I should have known better.

DA: Everett man will likely be charged for Expressway crash that left him with head injuries

adamg — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:56:26 +0000

An Everett man was speeding and sideswiped another driver before crashing into a Jersey barrier and rolling over around 5 a.m. on I-93 northbound by Freeport Street, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Edison Correa, 23, will likely face charges now that it looks like he will survive the head trauma he suffered in the crash, the DA's office says. Correa was initially non-responsive when emergency crews arrived on scene, but is now in stable condition at Boston Medical Center, the DA's office reports.

10/22/11 - 5:00 am

Alleged hit-run driver leads Boston, state police on wild chase that ends with him shot, dead on the South Shore

adamg — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:57:47 +0000

Updated at 1:30 p.m.

A chase that began with a man backing into a woman trying to get out of his car in Roxbury ended at Exit 14 off Rte. 3 when a Boston Police officer fatally shot him as, authorities said, he was "aggressively" going after police.

The suspect, still not identified, was taken to South Shore Hospital, where he died, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy said in a press conference at the scene. Several officers and a state trooper were injured, he said

It's come to this: You can friend a real dummy on Facebook

adamg — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:16:28 +0000

Remember the woman who got in trouble for driving in the Expressway HOV lane with a mannequin? The dummy has a Facebook page. Don't know about the lady.

No dummies allowed in I-93 HOV lane

adamg — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:29:42 +0000

The Globe reports a woman got a ticket yesterday when a trooper noticed she was driving in the HOV lane on the Expressway with a mannequin, rather than the required second person.

Lights, cameras, Rte. 128!

adamg — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:25:30 +0000

The state's opened up its traffic cameras to the public, so now you can see what state traffic engineers see along Rte. 128, the Southeast Expressway, Rte. 3 north of 128, three spots on I-93 between 128 and the Zakim and near the Sagamore Bridge.

Flying tire injures one, ties up Southeast Distressway

adamg — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 13:51:26 +0000

Channel 4 reports on the freak accident this morning on I-93 south in Dorchester.

I-93 turns into Southeast Distressway as camper explodes

adamg — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:02:28 +0000

I-93 shut at Southampton Street for 15 minutes as firefighters rushed to put out the fire in the ammo-filled camper on the northbound side.

Meanwhile, further north, part of the Leverett Connector is cracked. No cause for alarm, turnpike authority says, banning trucks weighing more than 40 tons just to be safe.

Southeast Distressway

adamg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:49:40 +0000

A multi-vehicle accident on the Expressway south of Neponset around 7:40 this morning left several people injured, an 18-wheeler turned over, gravel all over the place and the entire southbound side and the northbound HOV lane shut.

Enough to make you spitting mad: Dentists numb downtown, South Boston commuters

adamg — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:31:43 +0000

Dental convention backs up traffic on Pike. State Trooper quoted as saying the problem was that all 28,000 attendees at the annual Yankee Dental Congress at the convention center seemed be on a molar express for the opening session, which really bit for people just doing their morning drill, trying to get somewhere else on the turnpike and I-93 this morning.

More flying manhole covers

adamg — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:49:43 +0000

Two more, in the same basic area on the Southeast Expressway as the one that got wedged in a bus yesterday; one driver lost control and slammed into a Jersey barrier.

Couple this with Josh Simons's HazMat game (identify hazardous cargos by the numbers on the placards on the back of the trucks) and you get a new way to spice up the commute: "Say, Bob, whadaya think would happen if a flying manhole cover sliced through that truck with the '3' hazardous placard?"

Earlier:
Oh, we thought we were just supposed to check manholes on 128.
Route of doom.

Oh, we thought we were just supposed to check manholes on 128

adamg — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:09:33 +0000

Manhole cover gets wedged under bus on Southeast Expressway.

Update:
Two more go flying.

Earlier:
Route of doom.