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Arborway crash victim remains in coma, as friends try to help him out
By adamg on Tue, 09/24/2013 - 4:08pm
Kevin Cellucci was the other driver in that horrific Arborway crash, the one who was just minding his own business when an SUV careened from the other side and hit his pickup head on.
Cellucci, 33, and a carpenter, was on the way to a job. He's married to Tina and has three sons, Stephen, 5, Declan, 3, and Paul, 2 months.
His friends and fellow members of Local 40, have set up a foundation to help the Celluccis pay their medical and living expenses. They're holding a fundraiser Nov. 2 at the IBEW hall in Dorchester and are accepting donations online.
A West Roxbury teenager, driving three other teens that day, faces criminal charges for the collision, which also left one of his passengers with permanent brain and spinal injuries.
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Insurance
I would think that the insurance company providing coverage to the SUV is going to have some very significant claims made on that policy.
Coverage Caps
My auto insurance has coverage caps for "personal injury to others"; high caps (because I have comprehensive coverage AND I have a 6-year-old and have carpooling), but on the order of $1M/person. Which is going to go fast with a brain injury.
Very Sad
The fact is that the insurance will quickly run out if the insurance company doesn't manage to weasel out of paying anything. (They always try.) It's unlikely the driver has many in assets so the victims won't get much considering the extent on their injures. Life will become that much harder for the three children of the man hit beyond his own injuries, not to mention the other people in the cars.
Lots of tragic stuff here.
The Health Insurance Laws work
We have minimum insurance requirements in MA for health care. Sure, the money for this will first come from any insurance carried by the guilty driver. However, people are covered here. Won't help with the family's living expenses ... but when it comes to medical coverage the law does work.
I have had friends who have been in equally catastrophic situations where they were covered - a small business owner and an independent musician - because of the MA health care laws.
They struggled with living expenses while laid up, sure. But they don't have extreme medical bills and they have not been denied ongoing insurance coverage based on the events that put them in the hospital for long spans of time.
The minimum coverage for
The minimum coverage for bodily injury to others in Massachusetts is $20,000 per person/$40,000 per accident. That would pay for about one day in the hospital.
It's time to raise these minimums.
Distracted driving
Several high profile accidents happening due to teens these last few weeks. The news media makes note that they can't figure out why the vehicles involved drove into oncoming traffic, pedestrians, or bicyclists. Umm duh!?!. Distracted driving anyone? I expect the media to ask the tough questions. Why haven't the phone records of these drivers been checked?
We have laws on the books here is Massachusetts about distracted driving but they are never enforced. Not so sure what laws NH has. Probably none!
It might help
If the young adults involved actually had to learn how to drive in the first place.
A victory lap of a suburban town at mid-day, followed by a parallel parking ceremony and a crackerjack box is not a real driving test.
MA has the highest accident rate in the nation. Time to actually train drivers, test them thoroughly, test them at regular intervals and get them off the road if they can't handle the driving conditions like that bitty in Southie with her "now we have to look out for bikes too"? bullshit. Newsflash to old bag: you ALWAYS had to look out for them.
Source?
Do you have a source for that? MA has the second lowest (behind RI) automobile fatality rate but but it's certainly possible we have more accidents but fewer of them are fatal.
WAAF, that radio station you
WAAF, that radio station you were making fun of last week, raised over $15,000 for the family:
https://www.facebook.com/TheGregHillFoundation
Not official, but...
I guess the official cause of the accident isn't released, but unless the kid had a seizure or some sort of uncontrollable emergency, then I am very angry at this kid. All those horror films in driver ed didn't stick? What a moron. The Celluccis family has about an equal burden as Kevin Celluccis himself does. Three kids under 5 years old? Wow. God bless, hopefully he can make a full recovery and continue to be with his family. And as far as the asshole that caused the injury, he should be forced to work his ass off and pay this guy's bills medical bills.
They never showed those back
They never showed those back when I was in high school. I heard about them but all I heard was that they were a joke. We did have a reenactment but it was obviously fake. It doesn't matter how much fake stuff you throw at kids, the other fake stuff they pay to watch says everything will be alright. If you want to educate them about grim reality, show them reality.
They showed those particular movies in driver Ed,
back when I was in high school, during the mid to late 1960's. Some of those films, which actually did show real automobile accidents, with real people, as sickening as they were, needed to be shown. While they certainly didn't reach all people, they may have reached enough people to save some lives, if one gets the drift.