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By adamg - 6/27/12 - 3:26 pm
State Police announced today they've terminated Adam Paicos, a trooper caught off duty driving the wrong way on Memorial Drive in April. In a statement, State Police add:
On a date in May, Paicos was observed by a senior command officer engaged in further conduct unbecoming a state trooper, also while off-duty. Paicos was still on probationary employment status when the incidents occurred. The internal investigation into the Memorial Drive incident is ongoing.
By adamg - 6/24/12 - 4:42 pm
These signs are pretty much the first thing you see after turning onto Truman Parkway from Neponset Valley Parkway in Hyde Park.
Earlier:
By adamg - 6/23/12 - 4:55 pm
Boston Police report finding a woman with severe head trauma around 4:45 a.m. at River and Rosa streets. She was taken to Boston Medical Center, where she was declared dead.
Police say they're looking a black Jeep Liberty that raced toward Cleary Square without stopping. It has a black wheel cover with red and blue lettering.
By adamg - 6/20/12 - 9:59 pm
State Police are investigation a collision at the West Roxbury/Dedham line around 7:15 p.m. that left a motorcyclist pinned under a pickup truck before he was extricated and transported to Beth Israel Hospital with life-threatening injuries. Stephen Walsh, who took this photo of the motorcycle, reports the motorcyclist has died.
By adamg - 6/20/12 - 11:47 am
At 11 a.m., Stadol reported:
Just passed 5 cars that have overheated on 95. State Police were helping out.
Matt Noyes at NECN says now would be a good time to ensure your car's tires are inflated properly:
Prime time later today, especially tomorrow, for tire blowouts. Preventable - Almost always from low tire pressure.
By adamg - 6/18/12 - 3:28 pm
State Police are investigating a crash on the Mass. Ave. Bridge around 2:30 p.m. that left a motorcyclist dead.
State Police released few details except that the motorcycle rider was a 20-year-old man who was pronounced dead at the scene and that driver of the SUV is being treated for "emotional distress."
Doug, who took this photo, said the SUV "had major front damage and airbag deployment."
Another view from the WBZ helicopter.
The driver of a Boston-bound 1 bus eventually executed a U-turn to get back to Cambridge:
By adamg - 6/14/12 - 11:38 pm
Leaky truck. Photo by BFD.
Updated Friday morning.
Crews worked through the night to contain and clean up a gasoline spill from a tanker truck whose driver managed to bust open valves on its side, sending more than 1,000 gallons of gas into the street and Dorchester Bay, shutting Dorchester Avenue at Freeport and Hancock and forcing the evacuation of 44 nearby residents.
By adamg - 6/14/12 - 2:46 pm
Leroy "Hitman" Martin, 34, of Brighton, was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail at his arraignment on a variety of charges related to a high-chase from Revere to Cambridge that ended with him under arrest in the Kendall Square T stop.
By adamg - 6/14/12 - 8:25 am
Ryan Sawyer has started a project to map all the streets in the Boston area that are limited to people with resident-only stickers or otherwise restricted. He's set up a map on which you can add restricted streets, says:
I completed the entire city of Medford (since the parking restricted streets were readily available on the MPD's website), but the other towns/neighborhoods like Boston, Allston/Brighton, Cambridge, etc are not as easy to track down.
By adamg - 6/13/12 - 8:59 pm
Mike Ball, these days hobbling around with several broken ribs and his arm in a sling, recounts what happened when he dared yell at a driver who almost took him out at a crosswalk on River Street in Hyde Park today: A cop came out of nowhere and started yelling at him:
Unbelievably, he told me:
By adamg - 6/12/12 - 2:40 pm
Took out part of a fence and knocked over a young tree.
Nobody goes down Hawthorne Street in Roslindale who doesn't belong there.
And that's part of the reason residents of the quiet street behind the Washington Irving School say they are rattled by a Sunday-night crash that ended with three damaged cars, a broken fence, a newly planted tree with part of its bark ripped off and a car in the Irving parking lot.
By adamg - 6/9/12 - 3:32 pm
Steve Laniel photographed the reason so many police cars raced to Green Street by the T stop around 1:30 this afternoon.
By adamg - 6/7/12 - 7:44 am
Leslie Jones photographed a couple of MDC cops looking at the aftermath of truck vs. underpass on Memorial Drive at the Harvard Bridge on Jan. 18, 1944:
20 ton truck doesn't clear 9 ft. underpass.
The photo, by the way, is part of the BPL's huge collection of Jones photos of traffic accidents. It's a must see for fans of crushed cars, cabs, trucks and buses from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s that are flipped over, wrapped around trees, in the water and scattered in little pieces, sometimes with occupants still in them.
Posted under this Creative Commons license.
By adamg - 6/4/12 - 10:25 am
An angry citzen reports from Revere Street on Beacon Hill:
Can't get out of the car. Someone decided to illegally line the pedestrian path with pots of trees. Remove immediately. Very dangerous. Have to get out on passenger side where there is traffic.
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